Solved: rdm

ferexderta · ‎11-09-2018

ı create a rdm disk for a vm . I got the report with rvtool looks vmdk extension . ( vm01.vmdk . ) so why i cant see like that vm01. rdm.vmdk ?

i have vcenter 6.5

a_p_ · ‎11-09-2018

That's expected. Like usual virtual disks in ESXi, a RDM consists of two .vmdk files, a descriptor file (e.g. "vmname.vmdk"), and a pointer/mapping file (e.g. "vmname-rdmp.vmdk"). What shows up in the vSphere Client's GUI - and other tools like RVTools, which are aware of this - is the descriptor .vmdk file only, the other file is usually hidden.

André

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dbalcaraz · ‎11-09-2018

If you check the vm, did you see if you have the pointer?

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a_p_ · ‎11-09-2018

That's expected. Like usual virtual disks in ESXi, a RDM consists of two .vmdk files, a descriptor file (e.g. "vmname.vmdk"), and a pointer/mapping file (e.g. "vmname-rdmp.vmdk"). What shows up in the vSphere Client's GUI - and other tools like RVTools, which are aware of this - is the descriptor .vmdk file only, the other file is usually hidden.

André

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