Passthrough to VM in cluster?

[TeeJayHoward]

Is it possible to pass through a device to a VM that's in a cluster? If so, how? I set the devices up for passthrough on the hosts, but when attempting to add them to a VM, I get "PCI Device (unavailable)" with the following information:

This device cannot be added to this Virtual Machine because:

There are no devices reserved for PCI passthrough on the host.

I'm assuming it's because the VMs are being created on the datacenter instead of the host, but I can't see a way to work around that.

 

[TeeJayHoward]

Looks like I have to use the client to connect to the ESXi host, not the vCenter Server in order to use passthrough.

 

[Gunter.]

Keep in mind this will also lock the VM to the host and prevent vMotion.

Disable any HA/VM Monitoring if enabled on this specific VM.

 

[TeeJayHoward]

Keep in mind this will also lock the VM to the host and prevent vMotion.

Disable any HA/VM Monitoring if enabled on this specific VM.

I figured that it would. The device I'm passing through is the onboard SATA controller. Can't afford a new NAS unit just yet!