Add the physical disk to SBS 2008 VM

Hello everyone

I installed VMWare ESXi server on my PC and then I created a Vitrual Machine (VM) by installing MS Small Business Server 2008.

I want to use it as a main server and I want to attach additional physical contain hard drives that contain currently downloads and applications so that I can share them on the network of the virtual SBS2008 machine.

I read around a bit on how to add hard drives to a VM machine. From my understanding, it seems that I can give direct access to the VM (SBS, 2008) on the discs, but they need to be formatted in the virtual machine format (vmdk).

Is it possible for me to add or my NTFS hard disks on the computer virtual card without losing any existing data they hold somehow?

Thank you

Frank.

You can only do this if you have disks that are a SAN (iscsi or FC connectivity) solution.  You can not simply to attach a physical disk to a virtual machine...

the only way you can make available these readers is to have a physical box with them connected and spread then readers...

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