If I have a SATA drive in one of the internal Sata Ports, and install ESXi on the drive. I should be able to boot to the non-hot swap Sata Harddrive, and enable passthrough on the Hot-Swap Raid PCIE card and use any drive in the Hot Swap as an ESXi virtual machine's OS.
Is there something I am missing so the virtual machine can boot to a Windows Formatted drive located in the hot swap bay?
If there is, can you tell me how to enable the drive to be used for a virtual machine. (Instead of creating a VMDK.)
If there is any confusion, let me know if I need to draw a brief sketch of how I have the configuration running and what I am trying to do.