how to locate system boot partition when you have two identical datastores set up

[victorluk]

my ex-colleague has loaded another set of disks (3 disks of raid 5) from another ESXi into the current ESXi before he left.

so i have two datastores, each datastore contains the same system partitions. i assume only one datastore runs the ESXi.

i want to to take out the  datastore that do not host ESXi, but i have no idea which device contains the system boot partition.

i could use the command  "esxcli system boot device get"  to know the uuid of the system boot filesystem.

but how could i base on this uuid to determine which device runs the esxi system and which device could be removed.

thanks,

[SupreetK · Accepted solution]

Check the KB - VMware Knowledge Base.​ Though it says for Boot from SAN, it is applicable for all types of boot mediums.

Cheers,

Supreet

[victorluk]

thank you! that's very helpful!