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Thank you Vignesh, Unfortunately, this is not the answer that I was looking for. Please relay this information to the product roadmap people. I can summarize it as two major points. Customers are already using and have investments in expensive “devices” today that they would like to access from the Nutanix environment. These devices fall into two broad classifications: External Devices using a readily available controller with support already in Linux and Windows. Examples would be fibre channel controllers, SAS controllers, USB3 controllers. Types of external devices using these controllers are typically forms of disk and tape storage. Customers already have systems, sometimes even virtualized systems that are connected and using these external devices. It would be valuable to support some form of “raw” connection to these external devices, with the management done by the drivers in the VM. As an analogy, think of an external iSCSI device, which could be directly accessed by a
Hello vkumarjr, Thank you for your reply, but let me clarify my question. When I used the term “access” to an external device, I meant some type of pass through of the IO to a specific VM (through a hypervisor). This VM would need to have the proper device drivers installed within the VM’s operating system to support and manage the external device. I was not asking for Nutanix to “manage” the external device, or even know anything about it. The next sub-question would be whether the IO to this external device could go through a host controller that could be used for other purposes? This would mean that their could be co-mingled devices attached to this controllers, some managed by Nutanix, some by the “special” VM. This co-mingling, especially without some SR-IOV-like support, opens up significant risk, as the controller is being shared in some form between Nutanix and the special VM. If one software stack issues some form of “device reset”, it could cause errors and IO corrupt
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