ESXi 4.1 hot swappable eSATA

We run ESXi 4.1 on a Dell R710 and want to attached a box eSATA for backup purpose AND be able to Exchange hard drives without having to stop the ESXi server and perform any manual process.  Is this possible in ESXi 4.1?

I found this ESXi 3.5 poster that said this is is NOT possible in ESXi 3.5 and was curious to know if something has changed since then.

Thanks in advance for your ideas.

-Va

www.tranquilnet.com

You can use iSCSI or NFS.

But with NFS, you can simple copy of the files, with iSCSI, you can't see the files of the virtual machine (cause it works at the block level).

André

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