Hacking ESX Server To Use SATA In Stead Of SCSI
Thursday, 09 February 2006 by Michel Roth
As you probably know, VMware ESX server only support SCSI and SAN storage. This article explains how you can use ESX with SATA:

"ESX3 will start adding support for iSCSI and NAS as well, but for me playing with ESX on my home servers, this still is not a good option. First I tested with ESX 2.5.2 and after making a modification in /etc/vmware/vmware-device.map to reflect that my card does work, everything worked great. I was able to create a VMFS on my SATA2 stripe set and start creating VMs."

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