thiagocrepaldi

Thanks for the (quick) reply! I know that a single LSI 9211-8i board is capable of connecting 24 HDDs (and more)... I was wondering why a seller[1] would sell a similar setup with 3 of them. What are the scenarios that it would cover that a single wouldn't? That setup probably includes a backplane BPN-SAS-846A[2], that as far as I know, has 6 ipass connections to the HBA card, right? [1] https://www.theserverstore.com/SuperMicro-848A-R1K62B-w-X9QRi-F-24x-LFF-Server [2] https://www.supermicro.com/manuals/other/BPN-SAS-846A.pdf

Great tutorial, I am about to buy a 24 bays Supermicro and I am planning how to install DSM on the new hardware. Probably I will use ESXi 6.7 and create a vm for Xpenology. I most likely will use LSI 9211-8i like you, but I guess I read somewhere that ESXi passthrough has a 16 devices limit, which got me by surprised. Looking your description, it seems you managed to passthrough all 24 disks, right? Regarding your tutorial, should I do the same procedure every time that I upgrade DSM or just when I upgrade the boot loader?