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  • Find if a disk is shared between two VMs

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    We run RHEL8 on VMWare virtual machines, and create an Oracle cluster database (RAC) on a pair of VMs. Data disks are shared between the two VMs but OS software is on the local disk. Is there a way to find out if a disk is indeed shared between the VMs without going to the ESXi host, and without writing something to a disk on one VM and checking it on the other? It seems having the same UUID (from

    /usr/lib/udev/scsi_id -g -u -d /dev/sdX
    ) or disk identifier (from
    fdisk -l /dev/sdX
    ) on the two VMs is not a guarantee the disk is shared.
    (I know the question may be better for the VMWare forum.)

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