Creating VDisk for Windows Clustering

[scmiles]

ESX Server 3.5, Infrastructure Client 2.5.

I am trying to follow the article below to create a virtual disk that can use a shared SCSI bus. My OS vdisk is on SCSI bus 0:0, I am choosing 1:0. After I create the disk, the disk and new SCSI controller are listed int he hardware section of the Virtual machines configuration. After I make the newly created SCSI controller set to use Virtual SCSI Bus Sharing and click OK, I get this error "Invalid configuration for device '0'."

Here is the article I was using as a reference to create the vdisks using the -d thick parameter with the vmkfstools command.

Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

[francois_tiers]

Have you a private virtualDisk on SCSI0:0 ?

[scmiles]

There is a virtual disk on 0:0, it is not shared. It is the OS disk.

[francois_tiers]

You choose virtual map for SCSI1 ?

[scmiles]

Yep, just as in step 21 of Brendan's blog post.

[francois_tiers]

You should made a mistake...

[scmiles]

Are you saying that I configured it correctly?

[francois_tiers]

I said you should have made de mistake in the VM config... you shouldn't configured correctly the virtual disk !

[scmiles]

You lost me, I shouldn't have made a mistake? I was not aware I made a mistake yet.

[scmiles]

Answering my own post.

According to VMware's release notes for 3.5, ESX 3.5 does not support clustering. There is a patch, update 1. That corrects this.

Here are the release notes from update 1:

[scmiles]

Got my answer from Vmware Support.

[francois_tiers]

i didn't know, thanks for the response.