While I was installing Windows Failover Cluster system, I got an error like “Cluster Disk 1 does not support persistent reservations.”. If you are attempting to set up a Cluster in a Single Host, and the shared disk (or disks) for the cluster is RDM (Raw Device Mapping, or Raw Disk Mapping), in Physical Compatibility…
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VMware SCSI Bus Sharing Options
You can set the type of SCSI bus sharing for a virtual machine and indicate whether the SCSI bus is shared. Depending on the type of sharing, virtual machines can access the same virtual disk simultaneously if the virtual machines reside on the same ESXi host or on a different host. SCSI Bus Sharing Options…
VMware Virtual Disk Provisioning Policies
When you perform certain virtual machine management operations, such as creating a virtual disk, cloning a virtual machine to a template, or migrating a virtual machine, you can specify a provisioning policy for the virtual disk file. NFS datastores with Hardware Acceleration and VMFS datastores support the following disk provisioning policies. On NFS datastores that…