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LVM in ESXi Debian Machine?
Posted by GhostR on Sat 5 Sep 2009 at 14:03
So I m finally on Vacation and bought new hardware to try VMWare ESX/ESXi. Now the question is: Can I import my LVM Raid5 into a my migrated Debian VM?
I would like to resolve this question before ripping my old home server apart. I m not really comfortable with migrating my Storage to Vmware file system, I really would like to keep my "hard" Harddisks with ext3 lvm plus I dont want to spend $ on a raid controller.
I guess its nothing special to import a native disk into a vm (at least I could imagine) anyone knows?
I would like to resolve this question before ripping my old home server apart. I m not really comfortable with migrating my Storage to Vmware file system, I really would like to keep my "hard" Harddisks with ext3 lvm plus I dont want to spend $ on a raid controller.
I guess its nothing special to import a native disk into a vm (at least I could imagine) anyone knows?
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Posted by Anonymous (62.57.xx.xx) on Mon 7 Sep 2009 at 19:58
I'm afraid you can't.
On ESX/ESXi all local storage must be VMFS formated to be mapped to a VM. Using external storage (FC or iSCSI) you can publish a Raw disk which can be formated using any filesystem. You can also connect to an NFS share.
With ESXi 4.0 (vsphere) you can passthru a PCI controller (a RAID controller for example) to a VM which would let you access local disks directly.
There's also no way to connect any local usb hard disk as usb redirection is not supported.
On ESX/ESXi all local storage must be VMFS formated to be mapped to a VM. Using external storage (FC or iSCSI) you can publish a Raw disk which can be formated using any filesystem. You can also connect to an NFS share.
With ESXi 4.0 (vsphere) you can passthru a PCI controller (a RAID controller for example) to a VM which would let you access local disks directly.
There's also no way to connect any local usb hard disk as usb redirection is not supported.
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Posted by Anonymous (91.32.xx.xx) on Tue 8 Sep 2009 at 09:12
Yes this is also what I ve found out till now, I thought I m gonna give the raw disk a shot. but the passthrough of a PCI controller is good news! this was the original idea. my Sata controller isnt onboard, so this would be perfect, that has been the way I did it with xen too.
I will let you know how it went. I just ordered a sata system disk yesterday cause my old - refurbished one is ide. plus I purchased a new intel lan adapter as second wan interface.
I will let you know how it went. I just ordered a sata system disk yesterday cause my old - refurbished one is ide. plus I purchased a new intel lan adapter as second wan interface.
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