Hi, The reason ESX demands scsi disks is because it uses SCSI reservation commands for locking. It happens in numerous scenarios . i.e When the vmdk is resized.
You can however do one of the following: 1) Use NFS as storage for vmdk's 2) Use iSCSI as storage for vmdk's. On 9/8/07, Hetz Ben Hamo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi poeple, > > I'm thinking to install VMWare ESX 3.0 at my house for some testings > few ideas of mine. > > As you may know, ESX can be installed on IDE/SATA drive, but you > cannot create VM's nor create VMFS partitions unless your hard disk is > SCSI one. > > At first, I thought about plugging some SATA drive to the machine > since it's driver is working almost like SCSI (if I'm not mistaken)... > wrong move. VMWare still doesn't let me create VMFS on it. > > Many people recommend to use ACARD solution (which is a small board > you connect to your hard disk. Problem is, that this solution doesn't > fit my SFF machine and it requires an additional SCSI PCI Card. > > Does anyone know about such a PCI card (preferably low profile) which > I can connect an IDE or SATA device and it's feeding data to the OS > just like it was a SCSI hard disk? or better-yet - is there a way to > "cheat" VMWare to make it think my IDE drives are "SCSI" so I can > create VMFS partitions? > > Thanks, > Hetz > > -- > Skepticism is the lazy person's default position. > my blog (hebrew): http://benhamo.org > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Not gonna be king of the world if you're slave to the grind - Skid Row ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
