List of supported NICs for hardware-timestamping based ESXi PTP time

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

Starting with vSphere 7.0 Update 3, ESXi host PTP time service supports hardware-based timestamping using a NIC in PCI passthrough mode. 
This document maintains the list of supported NICs.

Environment

VMware vSphere ESXi 7.0.3

Resolution

ESX PTP time service can be used with certain devices in DirectPath I/O passthrough mode or SRIOV passthrough mode.

Supported devices with DirectPath I/O passthrough:

Family	PCI ID		Availability
	Vendor:Device	Subvendor:Subdevice
Intel(R) Ethernet Network Adapter X710,  Intel(R) Ethernet Network Adapter XXV710	8086:1572	8086:*	ESXi 7.0 U3+
	8086:1572	1028:*	ESXi 7.0 U3+
	8086:158a	8086:*	ESXi 7.0 U3+
	8086:158b	8086:*	ESXi 7.0 U3+
Intel(R) Ethernet Network Adapter E810	8086:1592	8086:*	ESXi 7.0 U3+
	8086:1593	8086:*	ESXi 7.0 U3+
	8086:159b	8086:*	ESXi 7.0 U3+

 (* denotes any)

Supported SRIOV devices with SRIOV passthrough:

To see supported devices with SRIOV, go to VMware compatibility guide: https://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/.

1. Select "IO Devices" in What are you looking for.

2. Select "PTP over SRIOV" in Features.

3. Click Update and View Results.

Additional Information

For more information on how to set up PTP with supported NICs in the vSphere environment, refer vSphere documentation.