external hdd issue

[kunjuttan]

Hi gurus,
Can anybody please tell me how to make a external hdd available in a virtual machine which is running on ESX4.Pls help.its very very urgent.

[kunjuttan]

pls help..

[Uwe Zessin]

Can you define "external HDD" ?

In some cases it is possible by using a "Raw Device Mapping" (=RDM).

[KarloChacon]

I think this is what you're looking for

http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/virtually_noob/tags/vmdirectpath

[kunjuttan]

external HDD - external USB Hard Disk.

[SoorajCleris]

Hi ,

Are you able to see the externall hdd under storage??

Regards,
Sooraj

[kunjuttan]

it is different from storage.I directly connected the external harddisk to ESX server>now I want to make it available in both ESX server and the servers running on ESX ie virtual servers.