Josh26 wrote:
If you get it to work - it won't be supported, RDMs are not supported on local storage.
The maturity is ESXi is complimented by the enterprise-nature of its design, where as local SATA disks are contrary to the "enterprise".
Thanks for the reply. So you're saying that even if I get the vmkfstools -z or -r setup to work for my HDDs, it will not be supported?
(at one point in my little research I realized that my rig lacks VT-d, which I though might be the problem; so even if I upgrade to a VT-d capable mobo+cpu, this is not supposed to work?)
I understand enterprise, absolutely. Yet even on enterprise servers, you find local SATA from time to time... but your point is well taken.
Josh26 wrote:
I don't want a layer of virtualizaion between it and the HDDs).
Why? What do you feel it hurts?
(a) the data already on the HDDs (I was trying to virtualize an existing setup) (b) a bit of performance. This is a file server and I'd like to maximize performance off of it.
What I did now, is turn the order upside down, - do my virtualization under the file server OS (including raw disk access). But it's kinda backwards...
