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  • 1.  How to Share vmdk between the VMs

    Posted Mar 27, 2014 06:42 PM

    Dear Friends,

    In our infra we have got requirement that Oracle cluster should be build without using RDM. And the suggested plan is

    1. Add the multi-flag to partilcular scsi port.

    2. Select the paravirtual scsi controllers while adding DATA disks.

    Questions are

    1. Is there any way other than adding multi-writer to share the vmdk between the VM's. What are the limitation and recommendation.

    2. What is the para virtual controller, what is the effectness of this controller. i found that there few modes of PSCSI controllers are available i.e none,virtual and physical. Please elaborate the same.



  • 2.  RE: How to Share vmdk between the VMs

    Posted Mar 27, 2014 07:02 PM

    Welcome to the Community - I have moved your question to a more appropriate forum.



  • 3.  RE: How to Share vmdk between the VMs

    Posted Mar 27, 2014 07:04 PM

    Thank you.



  • 4.  RE: How to Share vmdk between the VMs

    Posted Mar 27, 2014 08:34 PM

    See if this helps: https://community.emc.com/docs/DOC-21561



  • 5.  RE: How to Share vmdk between the VMs

    Posted Mar 28, 2014 04:08 AM

    Thanks Steve.

    Could you share the documents which can give more information about the Para virtual SCSI controller.

    I found one but it don't contain the information about different Modes(virtual,physical and none) of PSCSI Controller.



  • 6.  RE: How to Share vmdk between the VMs

    Posted Mar 28, 2014 06:10 AM

    Check this KB it might help VMware KB: Configuring disks to use VMware Paravirtual SCSI (PVSCSI) adapters