ESXi with PowerEdge 2950 III

[pfeif4]

I have installed ESXi with Update 4 and everything appears fine except guest OSs cannot see the host CD-rom. The host has a DVD-ROM which appears to be SATA. with a PERC 6/i integrated raid/sata controller.

Is there something I need to do to get the guest oss to see the host dvd-rom?

Thanks

Mark

[Dave_Mishchenko]

See the below KB article

For controllers that support both AHCI/SATA and IDE/ATA you need to be aware of the following trade offs:

If you’re using AHCI/SATA mode on SATA optical drive, the guest operating system does not have access to the optical drive. Only VMkernel and the service console have access to optical drive.

If you are using IDE/ATA mode, VMFS is not supported.

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=100867...