I'm struggling with an RDM mapping to local SATA storage. I have a P9x79 WS mobo running ESXi 5.1. I want to use FreeNAS in a VM with two Western Digital Red 3 TB drives. When I follow the steps to create raw device mappings, it keeps failing with a "Function not implemented" error. I've tried using vmkfstools with both -r and -z flags but both fail. Here are my steps:
Does anyone have any thoughts on troubleshooting this? Is there more information I can provide?
Thanks!
RDMs are for use against remote storage local. what exactly are you trying to do?
Hi Tom. This is for my home and my lab and I'm out of money to buy another box to set up remote storage. I'm going to use the drives to store data for the VM's I'm using. I've seen a number of people using vmkfstools to create a raw disk mapping to local storage and wanted to do the same. Any thoughts on how I might troubleshoot this?
Thanks!
It ended up working. I was running the command from the wrong directory under /vmfs/volumes. Both my drives are available to FreeNAS. Life is good!