USB Card for Passthrough

[402blownstroker]

Does anyone know of a PCI or PCIe USB card that is supported for passthrough on either ESXi 5.1 or 5.5?

 

[The_Moves]

It is discussed in other threads on this forum, but I use this card:

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3315#ov

You can see this post here where I discuss the chipset used, and the passthrough of the card:

http://hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=1040645023&postcount=22

You may want to upgrade to 5.1u2 - which has better USB support (though that may be for internal USB3, which I couldn't get to work regardless).

 

[dasaint]

The user Chune said he got his working and got around some PSOD issues... that was a USB3 on ESXi 5.5

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1782389&page=4

 

[jay3712]

I am using a HighPoint 1144B, which has four ports and each port can be passed through to a different VM. A little pricey but I get direct usb 3.0 for up to 4 vms and only takes one PCIe slot. I have a 1022 in another host that is 2 ports but they are on the same controller and cannot be passed separately. I'm only using 2 of the ports passed through to virtual HTPCs running xbmcbuntu.

More info here:
http://www.tinkertry.com/usb3passthru/

 

[The_Moves]

Woah, that's really cool, I only wish they were solid state capacitors