You are correct, the command is vmkfstools, there is a switch to create the vmdk in 'thick' mode (like creating a lun to be cluster aware) however clustering using "thick" disks is only supported for "cluster in a box" configurations from my understanding. For clustering across hosts you need to use a LUN and a RDM for the shared volumes.
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