NAS Server esxi local?

Hi all

I'm kinda new to ESXi, even if I'm running a server with it for a little over a year now. I use a HP Proliant ML350 G6 with a P410i raid (on-board) controller. I'm running a VM Windows Server 2012 R2 I want to use as an IIS server, but also as a file server. For a starter, I had 2 1 TB sata discs I have work in raid 1 (for storage) and 2 300 GB scsi drives in raid 1 (for the OS). When I go into the VM options, I click on add a device and under hard drive I see raw device mapping, but it is grayed out.

I heard that it's a bad idea to use vmdk for storing files (discs virtal) because it may be corrupted on the 2 discs. I was wondering if there is a way to ungray raw device mapping and map of the Bay of Windows server VM 1 TB HARD drive? I heard I could buy a NAS box and plug it in, but I don't want to waste money if I can do this directly from the ESXi.

Thank you very much!

> because it may be corrupted on the 2 discs.

Who said this? Both disks are presented to the ESXi hosts as a single logical volume, and the RAID1 is maintained by the controller P410.

I see no reason why you should not create a VMFS data store and use a virtual drive for the file server. Don't forget to leave a free space on the disk on the data store if you want to use snapshots or change the settings of the virtual drive to "independent" persistent in order to exclude the virtual disk snapshots.

BTW. local disks and volumes are not supported in the ROW, so they are filtered by default.

André

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