https://community.hpe.com/t5/bladesystem-general/direct-path-io/m-p/6004593#M23532 <P>Hello,</P><P>I need to know if i can use a PCI-e network-card in the PCI Expansion Blade thru esxi5.1?</P><P>The network-card is a from Siemens. This card is supported for direct path IO (i found a document at Siemens).</P><P>My question is: is the expansion blade supported for direct path io? i can´t find any blade server in the hw compatibility matrix from vmware?!</P><P>My environment:</P><P>C7000<BR />Flex10/10D</P><P>BL460Gen8 with PCI-Expansion Blade</P><P>Siemens Network-Card (supported for ESX-Passthru)</P><P>ESXi 5.1</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>thx for help</P> Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:10:04 GMT meistereder78 2013-03-21T15:10:04Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/bladesystem-general/direct-path-io/m-p/6004593#M23532 <P>Hello,</P><P>I need to know if i can use a PCI-e network-card in the PCI Expansion Blade thru esxi5.1?</P><P>The network-card is a from Siemens. This card is supported for direct path IO (i found a document at Siemens).</P><P>My question is: is the expansion blade supported for direct path io? i can´t find any blade server in the hw compatibility matrix from vmware?!</P><P>My environment:</P><P>C7000<BR />Flex10/10D</P><P>BL460Gen8 with PCI-Expansion Blade</P><P>Siemens Network-Card (supported for ESX-Passthru)</P><P>ESXi 5.1</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>thx for help</P> Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:10:04 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/bladesystem-general/direct-path-io/m-p/6004593#M23532 meistereder78 2013-03-21T15:10:04Z