How to configure virtual shared storage for virtual ESX on Wrkstn6 ?

[John_Balsillie]

Hi,

I have been successfully following the xtravirt white paper on installing ESX on Workstation6.

Now I want to configure VMotion and DRS between 2 ESX hosts but cannot work out how to configure virtual shared storage to enable this. Under Wrkstn6, a vmdk that is already presented to one virtual ESX host can be presented to a second host, however that second host can then not be powered on due to a lock on the vmdk by the first host.

Any suggestions or experiences on how to work around this would be greatly appreciated.

John Balsillie

Brisbane

[virtech · Accepted solution]

Configure NFS on a Windows 2003 server takes a few minutes, there is a good link for this which I will try and find.

here you go:

http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk/?p=228

I have tested this and it works fine.

Once you have it all setup, you can add the Datastore to both ESX servers, and then you ready to go. I created a very small VM to test it worked.

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Mooihoek

[John_Balsillie]

Thank you Mooihoek, I'll give it a go.

John Balsillie