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You must power the VM down to do this, there is no way to do it live. Period
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You must power the VM down to do this, there is no way to do it live. Period

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I was hoping to do it without using a command line.
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I was hoping to do it without using a command line.

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It doesn't appear you have a choice.
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We currently have six drives that are physical rdm. We would like to convert them to vitural rdm's. The problem is that we have to turn off the server detach and delete the drive then reattach it as a virtual rdm. When we turn it on all the drives might be offline which will cause MSSQL to error out. Has anyone had experience doing this with a MSSQL server? If so what is the best way to do this?<br />
Thanks<br />
-Windows 2008 R2<br />
-MSSQL 2008 64 bit<br />
-vSphere 5.5 sp2
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We currently have six drives that are physical rdm. We would like to convert them to vitural rdm's. The problem is that we have to turn off the server detach and delete the drive then reattach it as a virtual rdm. When we turn it on all the drives might be offline which will cause MSSQL to error out. Has anyone had experience doing this with a MSSQL server? If so what is the best way to do this?
Thanks
-Windows 2008 R2
-MSSQL 2008 64 bit
-vSphere 5.5 sp2

Converting physical rdm to virtual rdm with MSSQL server drives in VMware 5.5

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 is a suite of relational database management system (RDBMS) products providing multi-user database access functionality.Component services include integration (SSIS), reporting (SSRS), analysis (SSAS), data quality, master data, T-SQL and performance tuning. Major improvements include the  Always On technologies and support for unstructured data types.

Microsoft SQL Server 2008

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.