This guide is written for the following software configuration:
<ul>
<li>Amahi 7 (express CD)</li>
<li>VMware ESXi 5.5</li>
</ul>
<p>That does not mean these steps will not work with your setup. Just that your setup may be different and you will need to do troubleshooting on your own.</p>
<p>This guide will also assume you already have ESXi installed on your hardware, VMware vSphere Client on your laptop, and an Amahi VM already running on your hypervisor. If you are not sure how to do any of those above steps, this guide/setup may not be for you as it involves configuring advanced, and unsupported, hard drive setups inside ESXi</p> <h3>Configure ESXi Raw Device Mapping (RDM)</h3> <p>Start by enabling SSH on the ESXi host. From vSphere Client highlight the host and click the Configuration tab. Then under the software section click security profile.</p> <p>Next under services click on properties, scroll down and select SSH and then click on properties. Then click on options and start the service. You also can optionally set the service to start automatically with the host.</p> <p>SSH into the ESXi host and </p> <h3>Helpful links</h3>
http://www.vm-help.com/esx40i/SATA_RDMs.php<br />