Hi All,
I need to have several Wi-Fi equipped Windows7 guests on the host running ESXi. Each guest has to be connected via Wi-Fi to its own dedicated Wi-Fi access point. All the access points are working on different channels and serving different SSID's, so, I guess, I can't share the adapters between guests but have to have a dedicated adapter for each guest.
That's why I suggest to plug several USB Wi-Fi adapters to the host via USB Hub and dedicate each one to the only one guest using VMDirectPath.
Unfortunately, I can not test this in a lab as a server for the host and adapters are subjects to buy depending on the answers and further investigations..
Sorry, but also I haven’t yet any practical experience with ESXi.
So the questions are
1. Has anybody deployed such a scheme or similar?
2. I’ve already understood that I should choose the server which is compatible with ESXi http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php
and has a CPU supporting vPro, VT-d (Directed I/O) http://ark.intel.com/#server
What else should I take into considerations choosing the correct server and USB Wi-Fi adapter for this task?
3. What release of ESXi is the most suitable for this task, 4.1 or 5?
Any help and response are very appreciated.