Addition of physical disk to the server

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  3. make the BACKUP!
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  6. Download the site VMware vSphere client
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  8. customer help create the virtual machine and install the OS on it
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  11. begin to ESXi
  12. See how to add RDM on youtube, after client use, change first hardware VM--> add a new hard disk--> choose Raw Device Mapping--> (physical or virtual) mode--> store it with folder VM - FACT
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  I have just made this procedure (add ROW with data in Linux VM) on ubuntu VM, works well

  See you soon
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