Hi friends,
I would attached physical disk to VM, I'm explain us:
I have a VM freenas create into ESXi 5.5 but I want add a new hard disk, this hard disk is a hardware physical attached into my ESXi 5.5, it's possible? if it yes, how can I?
After I want mount iSCSI into freenas and I'll make backups
Thanks a lot
Rapici
Hi brunofernandez1
very thanks for doc, I'm going to try Raw Device Mapping and explain us
Thanks a lot
Rapici
i would try with raw device mapping:
VMware KB: Raw Device Mapping for local storage
Hi brunofernandez1
very thanks for doc, I'm going to try Raw Device Mapping and explain us
Thanks a lot
Rapici
Hi,
If I understand correctly, you need the additional space of your drive attached to your ESXi. As suggested, you may create a RAID group on your host and then try to add it as Raw Device or create a datastore by formatting with vmfs and then add this entire space as a new disk to your VM.
Apologies if I didn't understand your requirement.
Thanks,
Ram.
Hi Ram8,
I created some disk as Raw Device mapping using this tutorial RDM mapping of local SATA storage for ESXi | David Warburton but I recived some issue when I started the VM.
I attached screenshot
Any idea how can I solved?
Regards
Rapici
Try adding those RDM created to a new SCSI controller.
Hi mustafa and friends,
Definitely I solved add -a lsilogic in final vmkfstools line ex.
# vmkfstools -z /vmfs/devices/disks/t10.ATA_____ST3500418AS_________________________________________5VMCQ5RR /vmfs/volumes/iSCSI-SAN1/500GBRDM.vmdk -a lsilogic
Thanks a lot my friends
Regards
Rapici