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Mount a LUN on a Virtual Machine
I have one more question . I want to mount a LUN on the Virtual machine , is there a way to do it ?
Using vCenter i was able to add this LUN as a Hard Disk 2 ( Mapped Raw LUN )
I have LUN which contains some data on it , I want to mount it on a Virtual Machine .
i did add the LUN ( in vCenter ) as hard disk . below are the steps ,
Summary -> Edit settings -> Add Hard Disk 2 -> Raw Device Mappings -> and selecting the appropriate LUN -> Store with Virtual Machine -> Physical Setting -> Virtual Device Node .
When i reboot the machine .
I can see the partition in cat /proc/partition .
My question is how do i mount the partition . i dont want to format the partition as it had data on , Is there a way i can mount it ?
Using vCenter i was able to add this LUN as a Hard Disk 2 ( Mapped Raw LUN )
I have LUN which contains some data on it , I want to mount it on a Virtual Machine .
i did add the LUN ( in vCenter ) as hard disk . below are the steps ,
Summary -> Edit settings -> Add Hard Disk 2 -> Raw Device Mappings -> and selecting the appropriate LUN -> Store with Virtual Machine -> Physical Setting -> Virtual Device Node .
When i reboot the machine .
I can see the partition in cat /proc/partition .
My question is how do i mount the partition . i dont want to format the partition as it had data on , Is there a way i can mount it ?
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yeah that is the same problem . i am not able to mount the lun as it does not recognise the filesystem
FC SAN ... HBA is Qlogic .. VMware is 4.1 .
thanks
FC SAN ... HBA is Qlogic .. VMware is 4.1 .
thanks
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I wrote this big long drawn out thing but here ya go. one image;
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