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nzkid225
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External Hard Drive

Hi I have a western digital mybook 1TB that I have formatted as VMFS3. I would like to use this as another datastore in ESXi 4.0. When I run the following command:

vmkfstools -C vmfs3 -S edatastore1 /dev/disks/mpx.vmhba38\:C0\:T0\:L0\:1

It fails and says:

Creating vmfs3 file system on "mpx.vmhba38:C0:T0:L0:1" with blockSize 1048576 and volume label "edatastore1".

Usage: vmkfstools -C vmfs3 /vmfs/devices/disks/vml... or,

vmkfstools -C vmfs3 /vmfs/devices/disks/naa... or,

vmkfstools -C vmfs3 /vmfs/devices/disks/mpx.vmhbaA:T:L:P

Error: vmkfstools failed: vmkernel is not loaded or call not implemented.

Can anyone help?

thanks

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nzkid225
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I fixed the problem by connecting hard drive to ubuntu server and using NFS to use it as a datastore

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