Hello,
I know this has been asked before, but there is no definite answer...and both related questions were before release of esxi 7.0.
as another user has mentioned, it is supposedly supported as long as the drives are Intel, u2 form factor and on a hot plugable back plane...
On the VMware compatibility guide, the intel VMD driver is listed as native in the esxi 7.0
(iavmd version 2.0.0.1055-3vmw)
I am planning on ordering a new server for hosting esxi, and I have to clear this up before choosing my configuration...
(server will be a supermicro, most probably 1029U-TRTP2 with intel's p4610 nvme drives)
It will be a single host, no HA, vSAN or whatever, all VM's on the local datastore which I would like to be on the NVMe drives.
However I don't feel at ease having a single drive...I would prefer having a raid 1 array with 2 of the aforementioned drives.
Regular Backups will be implemented (still haven't decided on which path I will follow for this), but still if the single drive fails, I will have downtime...
Putting the 2 drives behind a raid controller, defies the purpose of going nvme...
Right now I am stuck with an HP DL380 G6 server running esxi 5.5. So unfortunately no way of testing...
So my question is, has anyone been able to implement this successfully?
stay safe...