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Hi Andrew,<br />
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The server is HP DL 360 1 RU rack server, the external HDD casing got eSATA and USB 2.0 connector.
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Hi Andrew,

The server is HP DL 360 1 RU rack server, the external HDD casing got eSATA and USB 2.0 connector.

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It's worth trying if eSATA.
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USB2 has substandard speed compared to eSATA<br />
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Only use for USB drives is a boot drive (only 1GB will be used, and VMDKs will go to other disks)<br />
You can trick vmware to consider non-usb sdcards to be vmfs or flash cache storage, but it is absolute no-go with USB
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USB2 has substandard speed compared to eSATA

Only use for USB drives is a boot drive (only 1GB will be used, and VMDKs will go to other disks)
You can trick vmware to consider non-usb sdcards to be vmfs or flash cache storage, but it is absolute no-go with USB

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Hi People,<br />
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How can I present the USB desktop HDD to the HP DL 360 server so that I can use it as test VMFS datastore ?<br />
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I also have eSATA connection in the USB HDD casing<br />
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here's the server specs: <a href="http://www8.hp.com/h20195/v2/GetDocument.aspx?docname=c02171046" rel="ugc nofollow">http://www8.hp.com/h20195/v2/GetDocument.aspx?docname=c02171046</a>
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Hi People,

How can I present the USB desktop HDD to the HP DL 360 server so that I can use it as test VMFS datastore ?

I also have eSATA connection in the USB HDD casing

here's the server specs: http://www8.hp.com/h20195/v2/GetDocument.aspx?docname=c02171046

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