How to Check the Size of the USB Flash Drive on which ESXI is Installed

[Anupreet01]

dOES THIS MEAN IT IS INSTALLED ON A lOCAL sTORAGE OF 4 gb

??

vfat         4.0G    1.9M      4.0G   0% /vmfs/volumes/515473c5-80e2cf4c-6d08-00                                                                                                                                                             22649fe108

vfat       249.7M  127.4M    122.3M  51% /vmfs/volumes/9ed44b7c-8b02a96b-f917-0f                                                                                                                                                             44b47b038c

vfat       249.7M    8.0K    249.7M   0% /vmfs/volumes/4085917c-5fe46fef-1585-05                                                                                                                                                             2bc76a2228

vfat       285.8M  176.2M    109.6M  62% /vmfs/volumes/515473a5-173b8a7c-6bf6-00                                                                                                                                                             22649fe108

249.7M Boot BANK

249.7M aLT bOOTBANK

285.8M Scratch

Can you please help .....

MY QUERY IS HOW TO CHECK THE SIZE OF THE FLASH DRIVE ONTO WHICH THE ESXi IS installed

[RParker]

You can't simply lookup the server you purchased and look at the bill of materials?  Most server vendors have a way of doing inventory such as Dell with the DRAC or HP with iLO, they can give you a server status and tell you every component in that machine.

The easiest way is to open the machine, and look.  That may be installed on a 4GB Flash, but usually flash is 1 or 2GB... but maybe you have the latest and it's 4Gb, but not sure if you can get this info from ESX.

ESX is designe for VM's getting information about the OS itself is challenging.. but then again, there isn't a need for this info.

If you know ESXi is only 250MB, and you can only use it for that purpose, what is this information to be used for?  Are you planning to hijack that flash for something else?

They are really cheap... just go buy one!

[Anupreet01]

I know but was just Thinking if there is some way you can check the Storage ....Geeky Question:smileyconfused:

[Anupreet01]

you have that Information in Esx.conf file located at etc/vmware

[rickardnobel]

Anupreet Kaur wrote:

vfat         4.0G    1.9M      4.0G   0% /vmfs/volumes/515473c5-80e2cf4c-6d08-00                                                                                                                                                             22649fe108

vfat       249.7M  127.4M    122.3M  51% /vmfs/volumes/9ed44b7c-8b02a96b-f917-0f                                                                                                                                                             44b47b038c

vfat       249.7M    8.0K    249.7M   0% /vmfs/volumes/4085917c-5fe46fef-1585-05                                                                                                                                                             2bc76a2228

vfat       285.8M  176.2M    109.6M  62% /vmfs/volumes/515473a5-173b8a7c-6bf6-00                                                                                                                                                             22649fe108

Here are some more information about the different partitions visible above if you are interested: http://rickardnobel.se/esxi-5-0-partitions

[Anupreet01]

Thanks Rick I have been to your blog many times but the only problem is it is blocked otherwise You have written real good stuff and easy diagramatic explanations .....

[rickardnobel]

Anupreet Kaur wrote:

Thanks Rick I have been to your blog many times but the only problem is it is blocked otherwise You have written real good stuff and easy diagramatic explanations .....

Thank you Anupreet. I am unsure when you say it is blocked, but we could discuss that through PM.