Access one disk from two virtual servers

certok — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:16:50 GMT

Hi,

We are using HP blade servers and Vmware EXS 3.5.2 running on them. What I want to do is accessing one disk form two virtual servers. I tried this adding one raw disk one server but when I try to add this disk to second server it says for the disk "locked" and doesn't let me add. Is there any way to do this?
thanks.

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Re: Access one disk from two virtual servers

Heironimus — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:47:14 GMT

It's possible, but not as simple as what you tried. VMware has a document that describes the procedure somewhere on their web site. The guide is about setting up Microsoft Cluster, but creating a shared disk is really a VMware thing and should be the same no matter what you run on top of it.

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