As we all know, it’s a 440BX based mother board being fed into our virtual machines. The advantage? It’s sooooooooo generic that every operation system should be able to recognise and use it.
Has that changed in vSphere (ESX 4)?
In vSphere, the mother board remains a 400BX based board, however, it has been modified. One thing that has been added is 32 PCIe root ports, therefore I can leverage up to ten virtual network cards in a virtual machines.
Regrettably, any guest that can’t use PCIe will see the slots and address them as PCI-PCI bridges.