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Let's say I have 3 harddisk with existing data on it (movies, music etc.) on ntfs and now Ive built a new esxi 5.0 machine, and I want to create a file server vm to manage that 3 harddisk on another build. How do I go about doing it? Can I use Ubuntu/openfiler as an iscsi target so my esxi vm...

thanks! looks like i need to get a mobo with VT-d or build another box just for storage. Which would you recommend ?

Thanks! i manage to create one datastore :) Now the problem is how my vm(ubuntu) going to access my other drives that is on the same box.

okay i've figured out how to create a new VMFS. And i created Ubuntu vm. So how do i enable Ubuntu to detect the other harddisk that is on the same computer?

Sorry if i'm asking a stupid question. But i'm new to esxi. I've installed esxi 5.0 on a thumbdrive which was lying around. And i have a spare 1TB hdd which i want to use to store my VMs. So how do i go about it creating a datastore using that 1TB hdd? And also would i be able to access my...