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cclloyd
Asked: 2018-09-10 14:47:56 +0800 CST

ESXi Passthrough hard drive to use ZFS on VM

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I have ESXI 6.7 installed on my r710. I have 1 2TB drive that's being used as the boot drive for ESXi and the VMs. I have 3 4TB drives that will be large storage. I want to send the 4TB disks directly to the VM so the raid can be handled with ZFS. How do I pass the drives directly to the VM?

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2 Answers

  1. There are several options. If the Boot drive is located in the same PCI RAID Controller you can't pass-through the entire controller.

    Try using RDM option which will paravirtualize hard disks to the VM. To make this, present all the drives as RAID-0 to the ESXi. Also, you can make an RDM pointer to each hard disk.

    You can use these links:

    https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2046370

    https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1017530

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  2. I used this procedure to do same for my truenas https://gist.github.com/Hengjie/1520114890bebe8f805d337af4b3a064

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