I am planning to move my old NAS data over to a virtualized FreeNAS server running on ESXi.
I do not have an HBA yet and was going to use the ever popular 9210-8i but saw its no longer supported in ESXi 7.0 but also am seeing that it doesn't matter f its being used for passthrough.
I will be using my boards integrated SATA controller for the drives housing my VMs and it is working fine but I don't want to buy a card that is going to give me trouble.
If it's wiser to get something else, I am open to suggestions. My needs are modest, just planning to run a 5-6 SATA drive array at the moment.
Thanks in Advance
