That's a neat board & package. RE: ESXI 7.0 - Is the LSI SAS2008 recognized in ESXI 7.0 automatically? I saw something about there being some changes with how drivers were handled and noticed it affected the SAS2008 and some other recommended FreeNAS hardware.Alternative?: Inventec B420GA0 1150 motherboard w/e3-1220 v3/16GB ECC/82599 10g/LSI 2008 SAS | eBay
I have this board and it is rock solid. Intel 10g nic that does sr-iov on ESXI 6.7 and 7.0. + sas2008. The pcie slot is 4x off the PCH though.
FWIW, my LSI 3008 & LSI 2308 SAS controllers work great in ESXI 7.0.