Pass raw disk to VM in vSphere?

[TType85]

I have a new whitebox server that I am going to need to set up as a test DR server.

Hardware is:
i7 3770
asrock z77 pro4-m
32GB ram
3x2TB SATA drives for the datastores

I want to add a 3TB disk to one of the VM's (A file server). Other than using VT-d (VMDirectpath) and passing a controller, is there a way to map a raw disk to it?

 

[danswartz]

http://blog.davidwarburton.net/2010/10/25/rdm-mapping-of-local-sata-storage-for-esxi/

 

[TType85]

Thanks, that was exactly what I was looking for!