#DUPLICATE WINDOWS VMWARE CLIENT SOFTWARE#
Physical compatibility mode allows direct access of the SCSI device for those applications that need lower level control. Physical mode is useful to run SAN management agents or other SCSI target-based software in the virtual machine. Two compatibility modes are available for RDMs. Make sure this datastore is visible on other esxi server where second VM is located. Click Ok.Įxpand New hard disk, Select the location, and keep it on shared VMFS datastore. This lists and pops up Select Target Lun wizard, Select one of the Lun from list (Choose correct one by verifying correct NAA id). Now from in the select list, choose RDM Disk and click Add. Next, Click on VM 001 again go to actions and select Edit Settings. Virtual disks can be shared by virtual machines on the same Esxi server. Virtual disks can be shared by virtual machines on any Esxi server. Virtual disks cannot be shared by other virtual machines. Keep setting for controller type to default (LSI Logic SAS). You can add total 4 virtual SCSI controllers and each controller can have 15 disks attached.Įxpand New SCSI controller settings, on SCSI Bus sharing choose Physical, by doing this Virtual disks can be shared by virtual machines on any Esxi server. In the bottom of edit settings wizard, Click select on the new device, choose SCSI Controller and click Add. Here I am adding Raw device mapping disk luns to separate SCSI controller. To start, I have listed my 2 VMs, Select the first virtual machine 001, click Actions then Edit Settings from the list. VMWARE ESXI CONFIGURE (VSWITCH) VMKERNEL NETWORK PORT FOR ISCSI STORAGE MICROSOFT WINDOWS 2012 R2 ISCSI TARGET STORAGE SERVER FOR ESXI AND HYPERV Warning: Windows iSCSI is not listed on VMWare HCL as Esxi iSCSI datastore. For more info on configuring storage and esxi check my below blog articles. When you choose to use RDM over VMDK datastore you get little bit better performance.īefore starting with RDM I have setup and prepared my Storage server and Esxi server, Created new 2 new Luns on Storage device, then configured VMKernel adapters on Esxi server, and rescaned hba adapter to list disk, at this point I didn't added and formatted datastores as VMFS. RDM is recognized as a pass-thru disk, and is a mapping file that performaces as a proxy for a physical device such as a LUN. For this I have achieved it using RDM - Raw Device Mapping disk. Virtual machines has to be separated from each other and should be located on different esxi servers, My first task was to provide my colleague wintel engineers to provide shared disk from vmware, so they can start configuring clustering. I had a requirement to configure Two node Microsoft failover clustering on VMware VMs in my office, The plan was to configure clustered file server.
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