local_disk做RDM.doc

ESX用本地磁盘做RDM的方法 由于本地磁盘的标识号很复杂，所以建议用SSH连接，推荐用putty，后面附上putty的使用,最主要的是红色的部分 VMTN Communities forum users have recently been asking how to make use of a LUN or partition on your local host within a virtual machine (VM) the same way you would if you had a SAN available. This is a more difficult task than some, and not every RAID controller allows this when using the VMware Infrastructure Client. We have to resort to command-line methods to make this happen. A VM with a raw disk or raw disk map (RDM) allows the guest OS to write directly to the LUN or disk partition within a LUN assigned to it, utilizing a pass-through mechanism. Using a raw disk or RDP won’t result in a noticeable performance gain, but there is often an improvement in management. In general, when a VMDK grows past a certain size set by the administrator, the administrator will opt to use a raw disk or RDM. With VMware ESX v2.5 and ESX v3.0 it took a few simple VM configuration file edits to enable a raw disk when using local storage. Unfortunately, those methods no longer work on VMware ESX v3.5. There is, however, a solution. It is not very elegant, but it will work. The solution is to use vmkfstools to import or copy a virtual machine disk file to the LUN or partition to use for the raw device. Here is an example that I just tested and seems to work. First, I needed to find out which device held the LUN I was going to assign to my VM. 1. Run fdisk -l to find the LUN. # fdisk -l Disk /dev/cciss/c0d0: 146.8 GB, 146807930880 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 17848 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux /dev/cciss/c0d0p2 14 650 5116702+ 83 Linux /dev/cciss/c0d0p3 651 1287 5116702+ 83 Linux /dev/cciss/c0d0p4 1288 17848 133026232+ f Win95 Extd (LBA) /dev/cciss/c0d0p5 1288 1924 5116671 83 Linux /de