RDM from ZFS disks to FreeNAS Guest

[fyver]

Hi,

I don't have alot of experience with VMware ESXi but I decided to give it a try.

My host machine:

Q6600 2.4ghz g0

8GB ram

3TB drive, 1.5TB drive and 1TB drive

The ESXi host is installed on the 1TB drive and I have made a freenas server on a guest machine, wich runs flawlessly.

But now I have the 3TB drive and the 1.5TB drive wich both are ZFS volumes and contain my data.

I was thinking of using RDM to 'give' these drives to the FreeNAS guest machine.

But because I'm just starting out I have no clue how to do this.

I hope someone could help me.

Note: Sorry for my english but I'm not a native speaker but I'm doing my best.

Kind Regards,

fyver

[iw123]

You might find this useful regarding creating a local RDM - http://www.vm-help.com/esx40i/SATA_RDMs.php

But you could accomplish the same thing by putting VMFS datastores on those disks then assigning storage to your NAS Guest from those datastores.

[fyver]

I was thinking about those 2 options.

I'm first gonna try to RDM because if i have to make virtual pools on them I'll have to copy 4TB of data to other disks etc...

[iw123]

Let us know how you get on