{"id":6,"date":"2009-06-21T14:15:24","date_gmt":"2009-06-21T04:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vmadmin.nt.com.au\/?p=6"},"modified":"2009-06-21T14:46:48","modified_gmt":"2009-06-21T04:46:48","slug":"implementing-pvscsi-in-windows-2003-and-windows-2008-on-vsphere-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vmadmin.nt.com.au\/?p=6","title":{"rendered":"Implementing pvscsi in Windows 2003 and windows 2008 on vSphere 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found a great URL on how to update an ESX 3.5 VM to vSphere 4 (ESX 4) and also incorporate the new pvscsi I\/O adaptor for the root drive (C: drive).<\/p>\n<p>Now I just have to find it&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the link to Scott Lowe&#8217;s excellent blog&#8230;. I&#8217;m not sure if this is the exact page I read but it has the same instructions.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"How to upgrade VM to ESX4 and use pvscsi in Windows\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.scottlowe.org\/2009\/06\/01\/vsphere-virtual-machine-upgrade-process\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/blog.scottlowe.org\/2009\/06\/01\/vsphere-virtual-machine-upgrade-process\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>IMPORTANT!!<\/strong> VMWare do not support the pvscsi adaptor for the boot drive&#8230;.they do not support it&#8230;&#8230;important words&#8230;does not mean it does not work. For years, they did not support Storage Vmotion on iscsi and nfs &#8230;does not mean it did not work.  You have been warned.   END COMMUNICATION<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found a great URL on how to update an ESX 3.5 VM to vSphere 4 (ESX 4) and also incorporate the new pvscsi I\/O adaptor for the root drive (C: drive). Now I just have to find it&#8230;&#8230;. Here is the link to Scott Lowe&#8217;s excellent blog&#8230;. I&#8217;m not sure if this is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virt","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vmadmin.nt.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vmadmin.nt.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vmadmin.nt.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vmadmin.nt.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vmadmin.nt.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/vmadmin.nt.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8,"href":"https:\/\/vmadmin.nt.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vmadmin.nt.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vmadmin.nt.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vmadmin.nt.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}