Hi,
We have the following hardware :
Two HP DL380 G6 servers with SAS HBA controllers SC08e; both servers have ESXi 5.0 installed.
The SAS adapters are connected to an IBM DS3300 enclosure with two controllers.
The available space is divided into 3 LUNs, two are used as VMFS datastores, but since we need to have more than 2TB available, we need to create a physical RDM to achieve that.
The command we are using to do that is the following
vmkfstools.pl --server esxi1 --username root --password pass -z /vmfs/devices/disks/vmhba4:C0:T0:L2 /vmfs/volumes/VMWareDatastore1/servidor1/IBMRAW2.vmdk
it reports the following error :
Unable to create virtual disk with specified parameters.
I've checked and rechecked the name of the RAW device, the location to store the VMDK pointer and the command line options to no avail.
We are using this setup in evaluation mode to be able to use storage vmotion until we finish migrating the existing VMs from an old iSCSI enclosure.
Thank you.