How to create shared disk in Virtual machine

**Kaufman** · 26-02-2010

Hi all,

I am using windows 2003 server in my PC. I am installing VMware in my PC for running Virtial operating system. I want to know that how to create shared disk in Virtual machine. My machine configuration is 1 GB RAM with P-4 processor. Please suggest. Thanks in advance.

**Modifier** · 26-02-2010

In the virtual machine software installation directory, there isvmware-vdiskmanager.exeFile (older versions availableplainmaker.exe), To copy it to the shared disk counters directory, create a shared disk (the old version of the shared disk file extension name. pln）

Code:

F: \Virtual Machine\Shared disk cabinet>vmware-vdiskmanager.exe-c-s 200Mb-a lsilogic-t 2 quorum.vmdk

Code:

F: \Virtual Machine\Shared disk cabinet>vmware-vdiskmanager.exe-c-s 4Gb-a lsilogic-t 2 sharedisk.vmdk

Once created, the directory there are four new files

Code:

quorum-flat.vmdk
quorum.vmdk
sharedisk-flat.vmdk
sharedisk.vmdk

Check and reply.

**MindSpace** · 26-02-2010

In the virtual machine interface, select "Edit virtual machine settings” and Add a hard drive, choose "Use a existing virtual disk, " Where you can found addedquorum.vmdk、sharedisk.vmdk. Double-click the newly added disk, the disk properties in the pop-up window choose "advance"Hard choice for the new added virtual device node:quorum.vmdkSelected set "SCSI 0:1”， sharedisk.vmdkSelected "SCSI 1:1”. Open two separate virtual machine directory vmx file, in the last line add:

Code:

disk.locking = "FALSE" 
scsi0: 1.SharedBus = "Virtual" 
scsi1: 1.SharedBus = "Virtual"

All the best.

**opaper** · 26-02-2010

vmware shared disk set, need to meet the conditions that the hard disk in the advanced properties must be set to 1:0, if the addition of a second block of shared disk, but also set to 1:0, the system will get an error, it is set to 1:1. If you need more information , Please reply. Best of luck.

**Reegan** · 26-02-2010

It also needs to vmware configuration properties file such as rhel3.vmx by adding two properties

Code:

scsi [n]. sharedBus = "virtual"
disk.locking = "false"

When will lock the system boot disk, so when after the start linux1 shared disk is locked, linux2 to get up, so need to join the disk.locking = "false". Generally speaking, if it is scsi1: 0, then n is 1, which is scsi1.sharedBus = "virtual", that all of the bus are shared, vmare recommend this practice. If we say that is not all of the bus are shared, you can be the above-mentioned scsi1.sharedBus = "virtual" change scsi1: 1.shared = "true. Check and reply.

**Zecho** · 26-02-2010

VMware recommends you set up the shared disks on their own SCSI bus, which is a different bus than the one the guest operating system uses. For example, if your guest operating system is on scsi0: 0, you should set up disks to share on scsi1 bus. For example, to enable SCSI reservation for devices on the scsi1 bus, add the following line to the virtual machine's configuration file:

Code:

scsi1.sharedBus = "virtual"

This gives the whole bus the ability to be shared. However, if you would rather not share the whole bus, you can selectively enable SCSI reservation for a specific SCSI disk on the shared bus. This prevents the locking of this specific disk.