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marky1975
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Shared RAW disk

Hi

I am trying to share a RAW disk between to VM's that are part of a 2 node vmware cluster.   I add in the disk as a raw volume to the first VM and set the scsi bus sharing to physical.   I then add the disk to the second VM using "use an existing disk".   However when I try to start the second VM i get the error

  "File system specific implementation of lookupAndOpen file failed.  Cannot open the disk or one of the snapshot disk it dpemds on, failed to lock the file"

Every guide i have read says ensure you set SCSI Bus Sharing to physical which I have but i still can share the LUN

Please can someone advise what i doing wrong.

Screenshots attached.

Thanks in advance 

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rcporto
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Can you confirm if you're using a dedicated SCSI controller and with SCSI Bus sharing setting on both virtual machines?

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Richardson Porto
Senior Infrastructure Specialist
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