I'm running an ESXI unraid build.  I have ESXi installed on an SSD and would like to add a portion of this drive as a virtual drive to my unraid array as a cache drive.

 

I have created a virtual drive, added it to my unraid vm.  However, I am unable to add this drive to my unraid array.  The drive is available for selection in unraid but is auto unselected after I try to choose it.  I've noticed that my virtual drive doesn't have a serial number.  I'm guess this this is the problem?

 

Anyone have any experience adding ESX Virtual drives to their unraid array?

 

Mike

I tried this once and from memory, I had to add it as an IDE drive rather than a SCSI drive.

 

The resulting performance was so horribly slow though, that I quickly just deployed a 2nd SSD as a cache drive.

Thanks for the info.  Not very encouraging though.

 

Anyone else tried this?