Hi all,
I've made an installation of the free version of ESXi 5.5 on a 320GB disk (rather than a USB key) and I would use the remaining space as VMFS partition to store a datastore for installation ISOs, however, when I want to create a datastore in vSphere, there are no disk to select.
When I mount the disk on MacOS / Windows, it appears a quite big space.
How to use the remaining space for a datastore?
From http://vinfrastructure.it/2011/12/esxi-partitions-layout-of-system-disk/ , I can see that I can use free space as VMFS partition.
In this example you can see there are 7 partitions:
- Partition 1: systemPartition 4MB
- Partition 5: linuxNative 250MB -> /bootbank
- Partition 6: linuxNative 250MB -> /altbootbank
- Partition 7: vmkDiagnostic 110MB
- Partition 8: linuxNative 286MB -> /store
- Partition 2: linuxNative 4GB -> /scratch (not present if you install ESXi on a small disk or flash)
- Partition 3: VMFS datastore (not present if you install ESXi on a flash media)
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