ESXI Datastore on Guest VM
As the title suggests I am wondering if anyone has any experience attaching storage to an ESXI host from a gust VM. I have FreeNAS running virtualized on a host in my cluster serving iSCSI to my other hosts but I would really like to make that datastore accessible to the FreeNAS host as well, not for primary storage but for the occasional vmotion if I need to bring one of the other hosts down.
Ideally this would be using virtual adapters on a virtual switch and not something hackey like passing through a nic to FreeNAS and connecting to the vmkernal adapter with a patch cable.
I had read previously that it isn't possible but some postings have made references to this being possible in 6.0 without going in to specifics. Hoping someone has those specifics.
Posted Feb 21, 2016, 8:36 PM UTC