DirectPath I/O

DirectPath I/O allows virtual machine access to physical PCI functions on platforms with an I/O Memory Management Unit.

The following features are unavailable for virtual machines configured with DirectPath:

• Hot adding and removing of virtual devices
• Suspend and resume
• Record and replay
• Fault tolerance
• High availability
• DRS (limited availability. The virtual machine can be part of a cluster, but cannot migrate across hosts)
• Snapshots