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+ <title>Manually Create VMWare vSphere ESXi Datastore Partition</title>
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+ <meta name="revised" content="11/07/2021 01:35:16 PM" />
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+ <h1>Manually Create VMWare vSphere ESXi Datastore Partition</h1>
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+ </div>
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+ <div></div>
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+ <div id="content">
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+ <ol>
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+ <li>Log into the ESXi web UI</li>
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+ <li>Enable the SSH service if it is not already enabled by selecting Actions > Services > Enable Secure Shell (SSH)</li>
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+ <li>Connect to the ESXi host via SSH</li>
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+ <li>Run the following commands
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+ <div class="codeBlock"># list connected disks<br />
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+ ls /dev/disks/<br />
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+ # using one of the partition ids from the above output<br />
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+ # list the partition table<br />
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+ partedUtil getptbl /dev/disks/<%partition id%><br />
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+ # add the new partition to the partition table<br />
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+ partedUtil add /dev/disks/<%partition id%> gpt "<%partition number%> <%starting sector%> <%ending sector%> AA31E02A400F11DB9590000C2911D1B8 0"<br />
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+ # create vmfs volume<br />
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+ vmkfstools -C vmfs6 -S <%custom label%> /dev/disks/<%partition id%>:<%partition number%></div>
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+ </li>
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+ <li>Back in the ESXi web UI, select Storage from the left navigation menu</li>
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+ <li>The new Datastore should be listed and available for use</li>
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+</ol>
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