Most home servers begin their lives using whatever storage connectivity happens to be built into a consumer motherboard. You plug drives into the onboard SATA ports ...
Sooner or later, a NAS or home lab that's pulling double duty hits the same wall: too much data, not enough space to store it. You go to add one more drive, reach for a SATA cable, but find that there ...
On the rare instance you'll need exclusive access to a PCI device, you can isolate it via VMDirectPath HBA. There are so many vSphere features that are new, it's sometimes difficult to keep up with ...