Configuring Physical Appliances for Virtual Machines in VMware
One of the new features of VMware vSphere is the ability to give physical devices from hosts to virtual machines, This ensures that the driver of the virtual operating system, Directly access the physical device in question, The advantages of course is the increased performance of the device, as latencies are reduced. Latest version of VMware Tools required, it should also be taken into account that they can only be assigned 2 per virtual machine and 8 Per Host. And logically such a virtual machine will lose all the advantages of moving to other hosts, since we are assigning a physical device of a specific host. This is called VMDirectPath I/O.