I have a question on how to add a storage drive in VMWare vSphere. Let's say I have installed ESXi, and I have 3 storage drive, and all 3 are showing at the Configuration tab in vSphere. Storage drive 1 has been formatted by VMWare and is running ESXi. Storage drive 2 has been formatted by VMWare and is accessible by the virtual machine. Storage drive 3 has been formatted by Windows and has data on it.
If I format storage drive 3 in vSphere I will wipe the data. If I do not format storage drive 3 in vSphere, storage drive 3 cannot be accessed by the virtual machine.
One way that I came up with to resolve this was to share storage drive 3 in Windows. If my vSphere virtual machine is Windows, I can map a network drive which allows me to move the data from storage drive 3 to storage drive 2.
I have a feeling I am missing something here, and there probably is an easier way to make data on a storage drive accessible in vSphere.