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1. Scsi to firwire thunderbolt converter for mac update#
2. Scsi to firwire thunderbolt converter for mac driver#
3. Scsi to firwire thunderbolt converter for mac pro#

If there are other Thunderbolt-based storage devices that you or others have had success with ESXi, feel free to leave a comment with details and I will add it to the post. Thanks to Gregg Green for sharing his use of the Thunderbay with Mac Mini 2012 Solution #10 - OWC ThunderBay 4 RAID 4-Bay External Drive w/Dual Thunderbolt 2 Thanks to Grasshopper for sharing details here and here.

Scsi to firwire thunderbolt converter for mac pro#

Solution #9 - Sonnet Echo Express III with Mac Pro 6,1 and ATTO ExpressSAS H680 w/ESXi 6.0

Thanks to Thomas for sharing his solution. Solution #8 - LaCie Little Big Disk Thunderbolt 2 with 2013 Mac Pro w/ESXi 6.0 Thanks to Johann for sharing his solution. Solution #7 - Another Sonnet xMac Pro Server Enclosure + EMC VNX You can find more details in the comments here. Thanks to Jason for sharing his solution. Solution #6 - ARC-8050T2 Thunderbolt 2 RAID

Thanks to Philip for sharing his solution. Solution #5 - LaCie Rugged Thunderbolt drives Thanks to Joshua for sharing his solution. Solution #4 - Sonnet xMac Pro Server Enclosure I came across this solution while searching online which also uses another Mac Mini Thunderbolt expansion chassis connected to Fibre Channel based storage. Marc combined a Thunderbolt expansion chassis with a Mac Mini chassis to exposed Fibre Channel storage to his Mac Minis. This next solution was recently shared with me from Marc Huppert who has recently expanded his home lab. Solution #2 - Sonnet Echo Express III-R Rackmount Thunderbolt 2 Expansion Chassis & RacMac Mini Enclosure

Scsi to firwire thunderbolt converter for mac driver#

This was the first Thunderbolt storage device that I had ever seen confirmed publicly to work with ESXi after installing a STEX driver VIB. Solution #1 - Pegaus R6 Thunderbolt Storage Enclosure I hold no responsibility if the listed solutions do not work for whatever reason.

Scsi to firwire thunderbolt converter for mac update#

UPDATE (09/12/16) - ESXi Thunderbolt Driver to Fibre Channel Storage from ATTOĭisclaimer: All solutions listed below are from the community and decisions to purchase based on these solutions will be at your own risk. I wanted to share these stories with the community for those that might be interested in this topic and hopefully others who have had similar success can also share more details about their setup. This is analogous to having a RAID card and having the proper device driver on ESXi to see its storage.Įven though VMware is not actively testing Thunderbolt-based storage devices, there are a few folks out in the community who have and have been successful.

This means that whatever storage device is connected on the other end can work with ESXi as long as there is a driver in ESXi that can communicate with that devices. Having said that, generally speaking from an ESXi host point of view, the Thunderbolt interface is just seen as an extended PCIe bus. If you look on VMware's HCL, you will not find any supported Thunderbolt Storage devices nor are there any that are being actively tested with ESXi, at least as far as I know. This is especially interesting for folks running ESXi on an Apple Mac Mini due to the limited number of IO connections the Mac Minis' have. A question that I frequently receive is whether ESXi supports Thunderbolt-based storage devices.