Virtual disk no detected when creating an ESXi virtual machine

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Hi team,
This is my first post in this Forum, so forgive me if I am doing something wrong or clearly showing how newby am I.
Due to budget constrains, we are not able to purchase vSphere licenses for our lab, so I have been told to give it a try to Proxmox. But still we need to be able to have a lab with a vSphere environment, even if only working for 60 days.
As I have a physical array, I provided to the Proxmox a FC volume, and created a LVM from it. So far so good. I created a Fedora VM, woking absolutely fine.
Now it comes the moment when I am trying to create a ESXi virtual machine and the installation process is not able to detect the virtual disk. I have changed to any single available SCSI adapter, no luck.

I know that I can create ESXi VMs on Red Hat, using qcow2 format. But my understanding is that, when using LVM, the virtual disks are raw, not really a file.
So my questions are:

• Has anyone succeed to create a ESXI VM using LVM as storage.
• If not, or never tried, how can a create a qcow2 file and attach it to the VM, on that very same FC volume?
• Maybe I need to create a Directory instead of a LVM from the FC volume. But no matter how I try, or what forums or websites I read, when I go to Directory, I always get "No Disks unused"...

Getting tired and frustrated already....
Any help or hints will be really welcomed.
Thanks in advance.
Ana

 

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I think I found the solution, which was as simple as to use SATA device instead of SCSI....

 

[aaron]

I think I found the solution, which was as simple as to use SATA device instead of SCSI....

yeah, in my experience, defining the VM disks as SATA works if you install ESXi.