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I'm definitely understanding what you guys are suggesting it's just that the hard disk passthrough component doesn't appear to function as expected. To simplify troubleshooting this, what's the best way to passthrough the whole controller to a VM? When creating a VM there are only a few devices that appear in the passthrough device option list (video card, USB controller etc.). Do I need to edit the VM config file and specify the SATA controller for passthrough that way?

That's the strange part, I'm fairly certain the physical disks (presented as sda, sdb etc in linux) were not appearing the dev folder. Does it matter how these disks are connected? They are directly connected to an 9240-8i which has been crossed flashed to IT mode 9211-8i. I was expecting to just see these disks in the Ubuntu VM's /dev folder but no such luck. That's why I attempted to mount these VMFS disks using the "unassigned devices" plugin in hopes I could mount them in unRAID and view the contents that way. Thanks again

Thanks guys, I thought in order to pass through a disk to a VM it needs to be in the array as an assigned disk? When I look at available disks on my Ubuntu VM I only see the local disk that was provisioned for it. If I open up terminal and take a look through fdisk, I only see that disk as well. Mount points also do not reflect any of the unassigned disks I'm looking to mount. Perhaps I'm missing a simple step but how do you go about passing through one of these VMFS disks right to a VM without mounting in at the unRAID level? I suspect editing the VM config file can accomplish this?

Hi all, I'm new to unRAID (migrating from an ESXi setup) and I've having some issues getting my VMFS file system disks mounted/visible on unRAID. With the default unRAID setup, the file system on my disks was just coming up as "unknown". Now that I've added the "unassigned devices" plugin, the disks are visible with the proper file system detected (VMFS). I would typically just format the disks and start with a clean slate but all of my media data is stored on these disks as well as ESXi VMs. My goal is to get these disks mounted and visible on an unRAID Ubuntu or Win 10 VM so that I can extract the data and move it to newly provisioned array disks. When I try to mount these disks in unassigned devices, the mounting process cycles for a few seconds but the mount button never changes to unmount... so I take it the mount is failing at some point of this process. I'm guessing that all disks should be mountable regardless of the file system? If it matters, these disks are attached via SATA to an LSI 9240-8i that's been cross flashed to an 9211-8i in IT mode. Thanks for any help you guys can provide! Chris