Dear Experts,
In our environment of Esxi 5.0 U2, on one physical Esxi host, I created two virtual machines of Win 2008R2, I'm not looking for any MSCS clustering. I created a LUN and presented it to host, the size of Lun is 10GB. I added it to VM1 as RDM (virtual) and it is perfectly ok, I am able to see it in windows. When I attempted to add the same as RDM to VM2, I found the RDM choice is grayed out, why is that, is this not possible to allow 2 virtual machines to see same RDM ?
I've attached screenshots for understanding how it is looking like. SCSI bus sharing on VM_1, I selected virtual to share a 'vdisk' between VM's in same host, but that didn't helped either, later I realized it is for sharing a 'vdisk' and I am looking for using same RDM in two VM's
Please see what could be the reason and if this is possible or not, if not possible what are technical reasons ?
waiting for response.
Thanks,