When adding storage from a SAN to a virtual machine, which is better, adding it as a virtual disk or using raw device mappings? Or is it dependent upon the situation? Does the method used come into ...

I've got an OpenSolaris box sharing out volumes via iSCSI to an ESXi box. I pass the iSCSI volumes to the VMs as raw devices, the vmx/vmxf/etc files are stored on an NFS directory on the same ...