On wmware Esxi host, I have the following VMs:
vm1 – windows server
vm2 – linux
I want the vm1 and vm2 to be able to store their database files in a folder "DataDB".
like this:
/WinServer2008
/SU11
/DataDB
/SourceControl
Anyone knows how to do this?
Best Answer
Although two or VMs can have a single .vmdk assigned as a virtual disk these are presented as SCSI disks and therefore all VMs seeing a single virtual disk would need to use a common clustered file system to manage the virtual disk or enormous data corruption would occur.
I am not aware of any common clustered files systems that allow for both Windows and Linux OSs/VMs to interoperate.
One option you have is to present the disk to a single Windows VM then to have that VM share the disk our using CIFS/SMB and have the Linux VM mount that. Obviously this would be file-level share only.
If I can find a trustworthy common cluster file system that is appropriate I'll update my answer but I'm not hopeful.