VMWare: create VMFS storage from the commandline

VMWare: create VMFS storage from the commandline

VMWare: create VMFS storage from the commandline 150 150 Roderick Derks

I just had to create a couple VMFS volumes from the command-line on a local disk. It’s pretty straight forward but I needed to document it anyway, here it is:

  1. fdisk -l (check what the last partition is)
  2. fdisk /dev/disks/vmhba1\:0\:0\:0
  3. d (I had to delete formerly created linux partitions)
  4. n (new)
  5. default (start block)
  6. default (end block)
  7. t (partition type)
  8. fb (vmfs type)
    1. X
    2. b
    3. 1
    4. 128 (disk alignment, check your SAN manual for the correct value, 128 is correct in most cases…)
    5. W
  9. reboot if needed (I did not have to reboot on my ESXi USB VMware server)
  10. ~ # vmkfstools -C vmfs3 /dev/disks/vmhba1\:0\:0\:1
    Creating vmfs3 file system on “vmhba1:0:0:1” with blockSize 1048576 and volume label “none”.
    Successfully created new volume: 49ce3608-2b378b66-c502-00123fba3df2
  11. Go to VI Client, Refresh storage view and rename the newly created volume

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