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also- how do I go about resizing the volume for future knowledge? Obviously increase size on my SAN appliance- but what next so the virtual server sees the size increase?
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also- how do I go about resizing the volume for future knowledge? Obviously increase size on my SAN appliance- but what next so the virtual server sees the size increase?

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Whasts weird is that the LUN is only showing up under the iSCSI Software adapter
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Whasts weird is that the LUN is only showing up under the iSCSI Software adapter

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That's what you want if you are going to use it as an RDM. &nbsp;<br />
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Edit Settings on your VM and add a new disk, select RDM and it should see the LUN and allow you to complete the wizard.
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That's what you want if you are going to use it as an RDM.  

Edit Settings on your VM and add a new disk, select RDM and it should see the LUN and allow you to complete the wizard.

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On my vmWare ESXi host, I am attempting to configure a RDM to an iSCSI target located on my SAN appliance in vcenter. This virtual server (2008 r2) will server as my newtwork file server. <br />
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I am unsure how to go about setting this up. I do have a dedicated NIC on my esxi host and I was wondering if I just create a new vswitch, add the NIC, go in to storage and add the new storage, then go to the virtual server and do the RDM settings? Please advise how to set this up. In the end, I want to enable VSS Snapshots and I will also be doing snapshots of the volume on my SAN appliance. 
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On my vmWare ESXi host, I am attempting to configure a RDM to an iSCSI target located on my SAN appliance in vcenter. This virtual server (2008 r2) will server as my newtwork file server. 

I am unsure how to go about setting this up. I do have a dedicated NIC on my esxi host and I was wondering if I just create a new vswitch, add the NIC, go in to storage and add the new storage, then go to the virtual server and do the RDM settings? Please advise how to set this up. In the end, I want to enable VSS Snapshots and I will also be doing snapshots of the volume on my SAN appliance. 

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