Add Passthrough Devices to a Host and Virtual Machine

You can get information about existing passthrough devices and add new SCSI and PCI devices to virtual machines and hosts.

Prerequisites

Verify that you are connected to a vCenter Server system.

Procedure

  1. Get a list of the PCI passthrough devices of the VMHost host
    $vmhost = Get-VMHost ESXHost
Get-PassthroughDevice -VMHost $vmhost -Type Pci
  2. Get a list of the SCSI passthrough devices of the VM virtual machine
    $vm = Get-VM VM
Get-PassthroughDevice -VM $vm -Type Scsi
  3. Add a SCSI passthrough device to the VM virtual machine
    $scsiDeviceList = Get-PassthroughDevice -VMHost ESXHost -Type Scsi
Add-PassthroughDevice -VM $vm -PassthroughDevice $scsiDeviceList[0]