ESXi 5.1 - RDM, No member disk

[Monta]

Hello!

I´m new with FreeNAS and ESXi. I just installed FreeNAS but I ran into a problem with it. FreeNAS discovers my disk that I have assigned using RDM but I can not find it among the "disk members" to create a disk volume.

I´m using FreeNAS 9.1.0, ESXi 5,1 and the size of the hard drive is 2TB.

Some screenshots to clarify my problem.
http://imageshack.us/a/img849/5425/fc6l.jpg
http://imageshack.us/a/img560/3305/bwgp.jpg
http://imageshack.us/a/img62/1882/8x1z.jpg

 

[Whattteva]

Just as a heads up before you go any further.
I hope you at least have read this sticky:
http://forums.freenas.org/threads/p...nas-in-production-as-a-virtual-machine.12484/

Judging from your join date, it looks like you're a newcomer and SHOULD have read that section before anything else.

 

[Monta]

Just as a heads up before you go any further.
I hope you at least have read this sticky:
http://forums.freenas.org/threads/p...nas-in-production-as-a-virtual-machine.12484/

Judging from your join date, it looks like you're a newcomer and SHOULD have read that section before anything else.

Thats true thank you. I actually only read a little bit about ZFS and i didnt think that it would be that much problematic to have it on ESXi...

I solved the problem by downgrading from 9.1 -> 8.3.2.

 

[cyberjock]

Yes, it works until it doesn't. And when it doesn't, you will be here begging for help and not getting any sympathy because you didn't follow stickies. Don't be a statistic! 2 people last week kissed their data goodbye using FreeNAS in a VM.

 

[Monta]

Yes, it works until it doesn't. And when it doesn't, you will be here begging for help and not getting any sympathy because you didn't follow stickies. Don't be a statistic! 2 people last week kissed their data goodbye using FreeNAS in a VM.

Its very interesting, i appropriate the warning! Can you recommend any other solution like FreeNAS for ESXi?

 

[cyberjock]

Yes. Use it in bare metal. You know, just like the link provided by Whatteva says.