Friday, 1 August 2014

Raw device mapping (RDM) in Vmware

Raw device mapping (RDM) is method to provide direct access to a LUN on a iscsi or fibre channel storage system for a virtual machine. RDM is basically a Mapping file acts as a proxy for a raw physical storage device placed in a VMFS volume. Virtual Machine can directly  access the storage device using RDM and RDM contains metadata which controls the disk access to the physical device.

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