Data not sync in when use VMWare Shared disk.

[frankind]

Hi Everyone,

Now i'm using DL380G5 with VMWare ESXi 4.0 update2 and I tried to share data between harddisk instead of using map drive because I want to use symbolic link in windows. When I created eagerzeroedthick with name VMD.vmdk and I add it to Windows 2003 VM with Share bus physical (and another SCSI 1:0) and I intialize it this with BASIC disk with properties NTFS to be drive E:, the problem is when i add this VMD.vmdk to another windows (XP or anything) with same configure (Shared bus physical and SCSI 1:0 ) so the Windows OS can see it as Drive E: but when I write data or create folder either first VM or second VM it will not appear to each other it look like data not sync.

1.So how to configure ?

2.If I want to create another server to provide NFS and mount it to G5 so your solution above can use?

Thanks in advance.

[DSTAVERT]

Welcome to the communities.

NTFS is not a clustered file system format. To use a common disk between two Windows server you would need to use MSCS. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms952401.aspx

You are better off using a network share.

NFS is just a network share service just like Windows shares.

[frankind]

Thanks for your response.

But I found some web that relate my scenario so can this step work?

http://www.symantec.com/connect/articles/building-vmware-shared-disk

Thanks

[a_p_]

Interesting article, however I agree with DSTAVERT. Sharing a NTFS drive will end up in data mismatch. MS only supports clustered NTFS with Windows 2008 R2 in combination with Hyper-V.

The only save way to use shared NTFS disks is to use them in a shared-nothing cluster like MSCS.

André