Can anyone suggest a PCIE USB3 controller that is compatible with esxi?

[oealias]

I'm relatively new to esxi and this is for personal use, not any kind of production environment. Running esxi 6.5.  The HCL is a bit hard to follow....is it only for chipsets instead of products?

I do not need/want passthrough, i'd like to be able to assign individual USB devices to individual guests instead of passing the entire controller through.  So i'm looking for a controller that is natively supported in ESXI.  Not able to find any cards that explicitly list support.

[ashwin_prakash]

I would recommend you to contact the hardware vendor for check for supported PCI Cards on the Server.

Inorder to connect a USB disk to a VM, we would have to use the Passthrough Option.

Or You could assign the complete controller to a Virtual Machine.

Support of the PCI device depends on the Server specification.

VMware Knowledge Base

[Big_Banana]

Successfully running a Startech.com PEXUSB312A.  USB 3.1gen2 (10Gb/s)

Used both as a host/USB device and as a passthrough device.

Server: HP DL360 G7

ESXi: v6.5.0build6765664

[clgz2002]

Hi Big_Banana, I am unable to get the PEXUSB312A2 to work. I am using 6.7U3. Any advice?

[Big_Banana]

Just bought another myself for my other server.  Now I have one that works and one that doesn't.