How to associate VM Windows drive letters with the vmdk file?

Guys,

I couldn't find a forum ESX 3.5, so post the question here.

# vmware - v
VMware ESX Server 3.5.0 build-317866

with Windows 2003 SP2 invited and many readers of mouted on clients.

I need to know how to map the Windows drive letters to the vmdk files on the host. for example

C:\ > hand NET

Share name resource remark

---------------------------------------------------------------------
$           R:\                             Default share
$           B:\                             Default share
$           C:\                             Default share
$           S:\                             Default share
$           X:\                             Default share
$           P:\                             Default share
$           Y:\                             Default share
$           Q:\                             Default share
$           I:\                             Default share
$           F:\                             Default share
$           W:\                             Default share
$           G:\                             Default share
$           D:\                             Default share
$           T:\                             Default share


[root@esx01 DB1] # ls-l *.vmdk
-rw - 1 root root 142807662592 6 June 2008 DB1_1 - rdmp.vmdk
-rw - 1 root root 367 14 Jul 22:02 DB1_1.vmdk
-rw - 1 root root 285615325184 6 June 2008 DB1_2 - rdmp.vmdk
-rw - 1 root root 367 14 Jul 22:02 DB1_2.vmdk
-rw - 1 root root 1073741824 6 June 2008 DB1_3 - rdmp.vmdk
-rw - 1 root root 363 14 Jul 22:02 DB1_3.vmdk
-rw - 1 root root 142807662592 6 June 2008 DB1_4 - rdmp.vmdk
-rw - 1 root root 367 14 Jul 22:02 DB1_4.vmdk
-rw - 1 root root 128849018880 6 June 2008 DB1_5 - rdmp.vmdk
-rw - 1 root root 367 14 Jul 22:02 DB1_5.vmdk
-rw - 1 root root 37580963840 Sep 26 17:58 DB1 - flat hard
-rw - 1 root root 337 14 Jul 22:02 DB1.vmdk
-rw - 1 root root 287762808832 8 November 2008 FOO-DB1_1 - rdm.vmdk
-rw - 1 root root 364 14 Jul 22:02 FOO - DB1_1.vmdk
-rw - 1 root root 21474836480 18 April 2009 FOO-DB1_2 - rdmp.vmdk
-rw - 1 root root 374 14 Jul 22:02 FOO - DB1_2.vmdk
-rw - 1 root root 42949672960 18 April 2009 FOO-DB1_3 - rdmp.vmdk
-rw - 1 root root 374 14 Jul 22:02 FOO - DB1_3.vmdk
-rw - 1 root root 429496729600 10 October 2009 FOO-DB1_4 - rdmp.vmdk
-rw - 1 root root 350 10 October 2009 FOO - DB1_4.vmdk
-rw - 1 root root 429496729600 10 October 2009 FOO-DB1_5 - rdmp.vmdk
-rw - 1 root root 376 14 Jul 22:02 FOO - DB1_5.vmdk
-rw - 1 root root 107374182400 18 December 2010 FOO-DB1_6 - rdmp.vmdk
-rw - 1 root root 376 14 Jul 22:02 FOO - DB1_6.vmdk
-rw - 1 root root 107374182400 18 December 2010 FOO-DB1_7 - rdmp.vmdk
-rw - 1 root root 376 14 Jul 22:02 FOO - DB1_7.vmdk
-rw - 1 root root 161061273600 Sep 27 2008 FOO - DB1 - rdmp.vmdk
-rw - 1 root root 374 14 Jul 22:02 FOO - DB1.vmdk

I need to know what vmdk is used for the drive in the Windows of the client prompt. I'm afraid that I could not understand it in the vmware.log or hostd.log files.

Thank you!

Steve

Hi Steve

You cannot map the drive letter for the vmdk directly, but you can map the drive Win on a specific vm using the SCSI number

An easy way to map the vmdk with disks of Windows is:

On the virtual machine 'change settings', note in down all the vDisks SCSI address example (disc 1 = SCSI (0:1), 2 HDD = SCSI (2:4)))

If you go to Windows disk management and right click the individual disks and select Properties, you will see that target and LUN ID discs

where for 1 HDD = SCSI (0:1), 0 is target ID and LUN 1 ID and 2 HDD = SCSI (2:4), 2 is target ID and LUN 4 ID

You map just for numbers of hard disk drive letters

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