Simulate a SANS on Vmware machine

Jonathan Zaldivar · Joined: 15 Jan 2008 Posts: 15

I was wondering if there is a way to simulate a SAN in a virtual machine
because I was trying to move the Exchange database to a new location. I
attached a USB drive and a message "that the specified destination drive is
not fixed" appears. I know if the device on which the database are stored
does not appear as locally attached block-level device, the database will
not mount. Please give me a good suggestion in solving this in a virtual
machine. Thank you in advance.

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Mark Arnold [MVP] · Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 1126

On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:42:09 -0800, "Jonathan Zaldivar"
wrote:

>I was wondering if there is a way to simulate a SAN in a virtual machine
>because I was trying to move the Exchange database to a new location. I
>attached a USB drive and a message "that the specified destination drive is
>not fixed" appears. I know if the device on which the database are stored
>does not appear as locally attached block-level device, the database will
>not mount. Please give me a good suggestion in solving this in a virtual
>machine. Thank you in advance.

NetApp have an Emulator. Tis ver good indeed.

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