RAW Device mappings

[proactis]

I am new to ESXi, I am going to be using a hard disk attached to my VM with Raw device mappings that connects back to our SAN.

What are the recommended options to choose?

Where to store the LUN mappings, on the VM or with the Datastore?

What compatibility mode to use physical or virtual?

We are going to be using this for database server in our dev environment.

[AndreTheGiant]

As written before, consider to to not use RDM at all.

But if you want use, put in the same VM folder and use virtual mode (so you will able to do snapshot and backup).

See also:

Andre