Hi,

I just installed an Highpoint Rocket 1108 card with 8x NVMe drives.

I cannot pass any of the drives to VM's.

Here's what the device looks like:

I tried adding ACS_OVERRIDE downstream but that didn't help either, they are all still in group 30 after reboot.

I also tried binding 83:00.0 NVMe to vfio but VM won't start either.

I have an Asus NVMe card which is natively split without any overrides:

Any idea how to get the Highpoint to split into groups?

I have some drives used in cache pools, and the others are used in VM's.

Thanks!

Hello,

Were you able to figure anything out with the issue of passing drives from the HighPoint Rocket 1108 to VM's? I'm also curious if you're still using it for pool drives, and if it's been stable for that use? I was looking into getting one myself and doing my research which led me to your post.  So I'm curious what you've learned about it since your post? I see they've released a model revision at the end 2023 and now have a 1108A.

 

Thanks!

 

Nope, it appears the 1108 is incapable of sr-iov.

I just use it for providing cache pools.

I do have the 1508 (PCIe 4.0) and it works great, has sr-iov support, and each drive is in its own group:

 

 

So given the choice, go with the 1508 even if you have Gen-3 drives, it should be backward compatible.

Thanks so much for the insight and suggestion!  What is the command you use to show the grouping?

 

Thanks Again,

Kerry