Provisioning a pass-through disk in a virtualized computing environment

Abstract

A physical host machine determines that a storage device from a network storage system is available to the host machine as a pass-through disk. Virtualization software running on the host machine assigns the pass-through disk to a temporary resource group on the host machine. The pass-through disk is logically attached to the virtual machine running on the host machine and made available to an operating system and application running on the virtual machine.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A method, comprising:
 determining, by a host machine, that a storage device from a network storage system is available to the host machine as a pass-through disk;   receiving, by the host machine, a request from the virtual machine for the pass-through disk;   assigning the pass-through disk to a temporary resource group on the host machine; and   logically attaching the pass-through disk from the temporary resource group to a virtual machine running on the host machine.