dsshanghai wrote:
Thoughts were to have a Windows File Server as a Virtual Server but put the managed Filesystem outside of the actual Virtual Server.
But I don't know if this is a good solution.
If you really want the Windows file server to have its "own" LUN then it is possible, however it is not recommended by VMware to have anything other than VMFS on a LUN with a VMware partition on it. If you really want you should create two LUNs, one for VMFS (for all other VMs) and one LUN which through a so called RDM is mapped to the virtual Windows server.
However, as have been noted above, the best solution is most likely to create one large VMFS LUN and then keep all VMs virtual disks there, including the Windows file server.
