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                RDM creation in VMware ESXi
              
          
        
      
        
  
      
    How to passthrough SATA drives directly on VMWare EXSI 6.5 as RDMs

To configure a local device as an RDM disk:

Open an SSH session to the ESXi/ESX host.
To configure the device as an RDM and output the RDM pointer file to your chosen destination, run this command:

vmkfstools -z /vmfs/devices/disks/diskname /vmfs/volumes/datastorename/vmfolder/vmname.vmdk
For example: