VM DirectPath Question

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Adam12176

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Have a vendor that is looking to virtualize their service, and we are their pilot. They use a hardware encryption card (PCIe) for transactions to a single machine.

So - the challenge now in our environment is passing this encryption card through to a single VM. DirectPath is looking promising, but I don't know how comprehensive support is for hardware that is not on the HCL. SafeNet (the manufacturer) has not submitted a piece for qualification that I'm aware of.

TL;DR - Is DirectPath even worth a shot to try passing through a PCI device that isn't on the HCL, or is this just going to be a mess?
 
Only way to know is to try. People routinely pass thru HBA cards and they work fine, even though not officially supported.
 
Thanks for the replies.

Hopefully it goes well - the cost savings are pretty insane (almost 100k if this works) - but I'm not about to beat my head against the wall if unsupported pass through is a lost cause.
 
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