Trying to build a home Lab. Installed ESXi 7 on a USB connected to Dell latitude 5501.
Connected a 1TB SSD ( WD My Passport) locally. Trying to use this as a disk space for creating/storing VMs.
However "New datastore", it is greyed out.
Please let me know how to use the hard drive.
Thank you.
found the following.
https://burnhamforensics.com/2019/01/31/manually-attach-usb-device-as-a-vmfs-datastore-in-esxi/
Since the disk was already partitioned, issued the following command
vmkfstools -C vmfs6 -S External-Storage /dev/disks/<deviceID>:1
This formatted the partition to vmfs6 and was able to create a datastore named External-Storage.
According to the screenshots the drive already contains a partition which occupies the full disk space.
You will have to destroy/delete the existing partition in order to create a new one (a datastore).
André
Thank you.
found the following.
https://burnhamforensics.com/2019/01/31/manually-attach-usb-device-as-a-vmfs-datastore-in-esxi/
Since the disk was already partitioned, issued the following command
vmkfstools -C vmfs6 -S External-Storage /dev/disks/<deviceID>:1
This formatted the partition to vmfs6 and was able to create a datastore named External-Storage.