I migrated my SHR array from bare metal to DSM running under vSphere 6.0 on the hardware in my signature. I didn't lose any data or users or applications settings or anything else. They key is to pass-through a SATA controller to DSM using VMDirectPath IO and connect the array to that - that way the virtualized DSM pickups up all the personality that's stored on the existing array. The Xeon in my T20 supports VMDirectPath I/O (which is why I bought it); unfortunately, I think you might be out