Direct disc access in windows 2003 guest OS?

[CatHat]

Hi!

Deployed ESXi 3.5 for the first time today to learn more about virtualization and save some power of my servers.

But i ran into some trouble, i have 3x1 TB disks with truecrypt encrypted partitions, which i need to give direct acces to from the Windows 2003 guest OS.

Is this not possible?

I have been running VMware Workstation earlier and there you could do it easily, but I just cant find any way to do it in Esxi :S?

Thanks in advance!

[AntonVZhbankov]

You can connect these disks as RDM disks to VM, it means that VM will work directly with these physical disks.

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VMware vExpert '2009

http://blog.vadmin.ru

[CatHat]

Do you have any guide or steps on how i do that?

I have searched the web for instructions on how to add these disks as RDM to my virtual machine but i cant find any instructions =/

I have read http://vmzare.wordpress.com/2007/02/19/vmware-raw-device-mappingrdm/ so i have a basic understanding of what RDM is, but I till dont know how i add my discs as RDM's in the VM.

[AntonVZhbankov · Accepted solution]

Basic System Administration http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_35/esx_3/r35u2/vi3_35_25_u2_admin_guide.pdf

page 153

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VMware vExpert '2009

http://blog.vadmin.ru

[CatHat]

Thank you!