You can then share the volume via NFS/SMB/etc. Provision a disk/LUN as an RDM and attach it to a VM. I'd like to swap both of these disks into my ESXi server.ġ) Is there any way to mount an ext4 disk in ESXi and have the VMs mount it as a local/network drive? Would other physical computers on the network be able to mount it as an nfs drive?Ģ) If I chose to instead format them to vmfs and use them as datastores, how hard is it to get drivers working so Linux/OS X can read/write to them? Could I broadcast them as NFS shares and have mounting them on other computers/VMs be as simple as mounting an nfs ext4 disk?īasically, I want to mount this hard drive in a VM without using a second physical computer and use the contents for a Plex/Deluge server.ġ) ESXi supports Raw Device Mapping (RDM). Additionally, I just bought a 4tb drive last night. I have a 3tb hard drive full of media but it is formatted as EXT4. It has 4 small 7200 RPM disks in it so there is plenty of space for my VMs but i can't really use it as a storage server as the cumulative space is only around 750gb. r/HomeNetworking - Simpler networking advice.Ĭurrently I'm using a 2008 Mac Pro as an ESXi server. r/pfsense - for all things pfsense ('nix firewall) Might be able to find things useful for a lab. r/hardwareswap - Used hardware, swap hardware.

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