Building out Demo space. Three servers with 8GB USB boot vSphere 7.02.
I have only three SSD in each server. Small first one (64GB - 128GB on each server) for cache. One 1TB SSD for vSAN data. Which then I hope to use the third drive for Tanzu PSC more ephemeral testing and build of dedicated RWX and testing. But to ignite the cluster I made one drive standard VMFS to install vCenter on.. .. storage vMotion to vSAN volume after deployment but want to recoupe it for use.
But I can't get the drive to let go of system logging tasks. What I prefer is to use the un-used partition space on the USB drive for logging of vSphere level events.
[root@thor:~] esxcli storage filesystem list
Mount Point Volume Name UUID Mounted Type Size Free
---------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------- ------- ------ ------------- -------------
/vmfs/volumes/60f64595-657c9f58-64db-a0423f377a7e temp 60f64595-657c9f58-64db-a0423f377a7e true VMFS-6 999922073600 998285246464
/vmfs/volumes/60f586a3-636b35c4-6e1e-a0423f377a7e LOCKER-60f586a3-636b35c4-6e1e-a0423f377a7e 60f586a3-636b35c4-6e1e-a0423f377a7e true VMFS-L 6710886400 4990173184
/vmfs/volumes/390ee1b1-ef492b48-76a2-1847a89b952f BOOTBANK1 390ee1b1-ef492b48-76a2-1847a89b952f true vfat 524009472 318857216
/vmfs/volumes/45112917-7b463725-129b-11154929b9eb BOOTBANK2 45112917-7b463725-129b-11154929b9eb true vfat 524009472 309485568
/vmfs/volumes/vsan:52f2089b18190833-66e05c9b09f7312b vsanDatastore vsan:52f2089b18190833-66e05c9b09f7312b true vsan 3000605159424 2260497404110
[root@thor:~] df -h
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
VMFS-6 931.2G 1.5G 929.7G 0% /vmfs/volumes/temp
VMFS-L 6.2G 1.6G 4.6G 26% /vmfs/volumes/LOCKER-60f586a3-636b35c4-6e1e-a0423f377a7e
vfat 499.7M 195.6M 304.1M 39% /vmfs/volumes/BOOTBANK1
vfat 499.7M 204.6M 295.1M 41% /vmfs/volumes/BOOTBANK2
vsan 2.7T 689.3G 2.1T 25% /vmfs/volumes/vsanDatastore
Issues:
1) How can I move "locker" and subsequent logging services off that VMFS volume so I can unmount and delete it.
2) How can I create partition on USB drive of un-allocated capacity where I can move these system / syslogs over to this drive
3) Temporary.... I tried to use vSAN volume for syslog events but it tosses error but is not very descriptive. Ex: Change [] /scratch/log to [vsanDatastore] /scratch/log but "..A specified parameter was not correct: changedValue.value..." is this some vSAN setting where unlike when I use FC volumes and that works, this will not.
Nerd needing coffee
