My build is as follows:
Supermicro X8DTi-F
Corsair CX500 500W PSU
(2) Intel Xeon W5590 @3.3GHZ
24GB G.SKILL DDR3 1333 (6 x 4GB)
(1) 2TB WD HDD connected to onboard controller (Datastore to hold VMs)
(5) 3TB Seagate ST3000DM001s connected to LSI 9220-8i cross flashed to a LSI9211-8i in IT mode
(1)Intel EXPI9402PT Dual Port Gigabit PCI-E
Working my way to an All-In-One setup. Currently I have a Windows Server Standard 2012 R2 VM that has access to the (5) Seagate drives through Physical RDM (and they said I'd have to passthrough the whole controller :P). Trying to get a PfSesnse Vm running. Plan was to passthrough the Intel NIC and use one port for WAN and one for LAN. However, when I try to start the PfSense VM it doesn't boot.
Event tab shows error:
VMware ESX unrecoverable error: (vcpu-0) PCIPassthruChangeIntrSettings: 02:00.0 failed to register interrupt (error code 195887110)
After ESXi host reboot if PfSesne is first VM turned on(no other running) it boots and PfSense can see Intel NIC and I can ping it and access webconfig from another computer.
If I turn on the Win Server 2012 VM things work ok for a bit but then PfSense becomes unreachable and wont respond to pings. Trying to reboot PfSense VM then results in previously mentioned error.
After some googling I found this article
Being a VMware noob I didn't fully understand it, but when configuring passthrough vSphere forces you to make both ports available for passthrough since they are on the same card. I then removed the passthrough of the 2:00.0 port from the PfSesne VM (other NIC port was 2:00.1) it booted , but PfSesne didn't see any interfaces.
I've pretty much tried everything I can think of ,so any help or guidance anyone can lend is greatly appreciated.
