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- #Can't connect to thunderbolt card on windows for mac mac#
#Can't connect to thunderbolt card on windows for mac install#
Once you install the Aquantia ESXi Driver which can be downloaded from here, you can plug in the device into a Thunderbolt 3 port and ESXi should automatically detect the network adaptor. I was very fortunate to have been able to get my hands on several of these TB3 to 10GbE devices for testing purposes, a huge thanks goes out to OWC for the Akitio T3-10G and Dirk Hohndel for the OWC TB3 to 10GbE device. This driver is supported for both ESXi 6.7 and 7.x
#Can't connect to thunderbolt card on windows for mac update#
UPDATE (04/27/20) - Marvell (formally Aquantia) has just released an official Native ESXi Driver for their AQtion based network adaptors which you can find here and for the complete list of supported devices using this driver, please refer to the VMware HCL here. For what you get, this is relatively inexpensive, especially if you are setting up a 2-Node vSAN Cluster with Direct Connect!
These devices are pretty small and best of all, it enables you to significantly expand your networking capabilities if you have a system with a TB3 port such as an 7th/8th Gen Intel NUC or Skull Canyon NUC or the Hades Canyon NUC which actually has two TB3 ports. This is why I was excited for the Aquantia development because there are a number of Thunderbolt 3 (TB3) to 10GbE adapters on the market that can now be enabled with the new ESXi driver. However, I am guessing that most folks including myself, probably prefer a more plug-in-play option that just works out of the box. There are definitely some creative options out there, most recently Chad Moon shared his solution using a Thunderbolt 3 to PCIe expansion chassis with his Intel NUCs which will run you about $230 per setup or you can be a true hardware hacker like Jack Harvest and use one of the M.2 slots in the Intel Skull Canyon NUC and connect that to PCIe 10GbE SFP+ card with a custom 3D printed chassis to hide everything for just $43.68 🙂 When you start looking at 10GbE accessibility for VMware home labs which could potentially apply to remote office/branch office (ROBO) and Edge/IoT environments, the cost and the complexity of the setup is something that many folks have to consider. This is especially common for VMware customers who virtualize Apple MacOS on vSphere for MacOS/iOS development and the use of Thunderbolt enables ESXi to connect to the underlying storage and networking infrastructure, which traditionally has been either Fibre Channel and/or IP-based storage running over a 10Gig link. Many Enterprise customers have already been using Thunderbolt 2/3 to access their 10 Gigabit infrastructure, usually over SFP+ but Ethernet based options also exists such as the Sonnet solution which I had shared last year. Although this was exciting news for our VMware/Apple customers, I was actually more excited for what this development meant for the larger VMware Community when it comes to 10GbE accessibility.
#Can't connect to thunderbolt card on windows for mac mac#
With the help from Aquantia, we now have an ESXi driver to enable the built-in 10GbE adaptor for both the Apple 2018 Mac Mini and the iMac Pro.
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