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The Complete VMware vSphere Guide
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The Complete VMware vSphere Guide

by Mike Brown, Hersey Cartwright, Martin Gavanda, Andrea Mauro, Karel Novak, Paolo Valsecchi
November 2019
Beginner content levelBeginner
768 pages
32h 29m
English
Packt Publishing
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RDM device and multi-writer flag

This is probably one of the most common clustered deployments, but always follows the official documentation from VMware or your application vendor for specific configurations. In this example, I assume that a VM is already configured and the operating system is installed. An initial VM has a single virtual disk on the VMFS datastore connected to SCSI controller 0:

  1. Power off the VM and edit the settings of the virtual hardware.
  2. Assign a new SCSI controller 1:
    1. Type: VMware Paravirtual
    2. SCSI Bus Sharing: None
  3. Create a new RDM disk and attach it to SCSI controller 1:
    • Compatibility Mode: Physical
    • Sharing: Multi-writer:
  1. Start the first VM.
  2. From the guest OS (assuming it is Windows Server), rescan the ...
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