Specifications

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Chapter 9 Storage and File Systems
6Specify!the!following:
a Select!Use!Metadata!to!enable!access!to!the!disks!metadata!file!information.!
b Choose!the!Metadata!File!Location.!
cEnter!a!name!in!the!Metadata!File!Name!field.!
d Select!the!appropriate!SCSI!ID!in!the!Virtual!SCSI!Node!list.!
e Choose!the!Compatibility!of!the!guest!operating!system:
Physical!–!Gives!the!guest!operating!system!direct!disk!access.!
Virtual!–!Allows!you!to!choose!a!disk!mode!for!the!guest!operating!system.
7Click!OK!to!add!the!disk.
Determining SCSI Target IDs
To!assign!SCSI!disks!to!a!virtual!machine,!you!need!to!know!which!controller!the!drive!
is!on!and!what!the!SCSI!target!ID!of!the!controller!is.!This!section!helps!you!determine!
these!values!without!physically!looking!at!the!SCSI!target!ID!settings!on!the!drives.
SCSI!disks!can!be!
accessed!by!local!SCSI!adapters!or!on!a!SAN!by!Fibre!Channel!
adapters.!Descriptions!of!SCSI!adapters!in!this!section,!also!apply!to!Fibre!Channel!
adapters,!although!they!are!not!explicitly!mentioned.
On!a!standard!Linux!system,!or!for!a!VMware!service!console!that!has!SCSI!or!Fibre!
Channel!(FC)!controllers!
assigned!to!the!service!console!rather!than!the!VMkernel,!
information!on!attached!SCSI!devices,!including!SCSI!target!IDs!is!available!in!the!boot!
log!(usually!/var/log/messages),!or!from!examining!/proc/scsi/scsi.!
Information!about!the!SCSI!controllers!assigned!to!the!VMkernel!and!about!the!devices!
attached!to!these!controllers!is!available!in
!the!/proc/vmware/scsi!directory!when!the!
VMkernel!and!the!VMkernel!device!module(s)!for!the!SCSI!controller(s)!have!been!
loaded.!
Each!entry!in!the!/proc/vmware/scsi!directory!corresponds!to!a!SCSI!controller!
assigned!to!the!VMkernel.!For!example,!assume!you!issued!a!vmkload_mod!command!
with!the!base!name!vmhba!and!a!single!SCSI!
controller!was!found.!
To!identify!the!controller,!type!this!command:
ls -l /proc/vmware/scsi
The!output!of!the!ls!command!is:
total 0
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jun 22 12:44 vmhba0