VMware ESXi 5.1 Update 1でゲストOSがサポートするデバイス [Windows Server]
	Windows Server 8 x64	Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 x64	Windows Server 2008 SP2 x64,x86	Windows Server 2003 SP2 x64,x86	Windows 2000 Server SP4 x86	Windows NT 4.0 SP6a x86
Networking
e1000:	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Emulated Intel 82545EM Gigabit Ethernet NIC
Enhanced VMXNET:	Not Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Not Supported	Not Supported	Second generation VMware virtual NIC
Vlance:	Not Supported	Not Supported	Not Supported	Not Supported	Supported	Supported	Emulated AMD 79C970 PCnet32 Lance NIC
VMXNET:	Not Supported	Not Supported	Not Supported	Not Supported	Supported	Supported	VMware virtual NIC
VMXNET 3:	Supported	Supported (Recommended)	Supported (Recommended)	Supported (Recommended)	Not Supported	Not Supported	Third generation VMware virtual NIC
Storage
BusLogic:	Not Supported	Not Supported	Not Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Virtual BusLogic Parallel SCSI adapter
IDE:	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Virtual IDE adapter for ATA disks
LSI Logic:	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Not Supported	Virtual LSI Logic Parallel SCSI adapter
LSI Logic SAS:	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Not Supported	Virutal LSI Logic SAS adapter
VMware vSCSI:	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Not Supported	Not Supported	VMware virtual SCSI adapter
Virtual Hardware
Hot Add Memory :	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Not Supported	Not Supported	Ability to add memory to a running virtual machine with zero downtime
Hot Add vCPU :	Supported	Supported	Not Supported	Not Supported	Not Supported	Not Supported	Ability to add a virtual CPU to a running virtual machine with zero downtime
Paravirtualization (VMI):	Not Supported	Not Supported	Not Supported	Not Supported	Not Supported	Not Supported	Support for 32-bit paravirtualized Linux guests using VMI (Virtual Machine Interface)
SMP:	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Not Supported	Virtual Symmetric Multiprocessing
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