I could also sum up all my writing to: Thunderbolt transparently bridges 4 PCI-e lanes to any external hardware. So whatever PCIe device is supported by ESXi should also work at the end of a Thunderbolt bridge. Maximum throughput is PCI-e x4 (4x2.5=10Gbps), so 2 FC4 ports or 1 FC8 is fully supported, whereas 10GbE might be a bit underfead. But I saw no saturated 10GbE yet - except maybe for 10Gb crosslinks between heavily loaded network switches.
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