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mdterp
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vCenter 5.5 and shared iSCSI storage between VMs

I have the need to cluster two Win 2012 server VMs.  I have prested my iSCSI LUNs and the ESX host can see them and I could add them to become a datastore.

My Win2012 VMs need to share the storage to cluster a SQL db.  I have never done this and everything I have tried to this point hasn't worked.  I tried creating the RDM, but that only worked to connect it to a drive on one of the VMs.

I am sure this can be done, but I am not even sure where to look.  Is this really what RDM is for or is there another way?  Seems like I could just use the iSCSI initator in Windows to connect to my SAN but that would probably run pretty slow.

Any help would be great!

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Yes it can be done - Have you reviewed http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-55/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-55-setup-m...

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Yes it can be done - Have you reviewed http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-55/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-55-setup-m...

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