Correct, just vt-D passedthru HBA's from vSphere 6.0 U1 to recent kernel Linux VM's. I guess i could try baremetal but if you have already done that no point really...I have always and need to use these as AIO stg appliances and if all the other flavors of Illumos, FreeNAS, Solaris, and older ubuntu ZoL 14.04.3 work w/out ANY tweaks to .vmx or pci=realloc=off settings then i just cannot wrap my head arnd what is going on here. The paranoid man in me says 'they broke my sh|t cause they don't want me using it in vt-D mode' haha