Raw Device Mapping is a feature of ESX 2.5 and above which allows a guest OS to have access to a LUN on fibre or ISCSI SAN.
See http://www.vmware.com/pdf/esx25_rawdevicemapping.pdf for more details. You may be able to do something similar with the raw disks under workstation see http://www.vmware.com/support/reference/linux/osonpartition_linux.html Since I added the RDM to one of my guest OSes all of them them have started working using virtual disks after running <code> #zpool export tank #zpool import -f tank </code> Maybe adding the RDM changed some behavoiur of ESX or mabe I just got lucky This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
