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hyvokar
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Esxi 6.5 on SD, where's my free space?

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I just installed esxi 6.5 from dell media to Dell PowerEdge R530 server with isdm and 2x16GB SD cards in raid1.

When installing, the esxi installer sees the SD-Raid as 14,9GB volume.

Anyway, after install when I ssh to host:

[root@fi-esxi022:~] df -h

Filesystem   Size   Used Available Use% Mounted on

vfat       285.8M 205.8M     80.0M  72% /vmfs/volumes/59007df5-ef00047d-20b7-a0369fe34cb4

vfat       249.7M 145.1M    104.6M  58% /vmfs/volumes/f301fbe0-398fd6f3-59c9-9e7006741b19

vfat       249.7M   8.0K    249.7M   0% /vmfs/volumes/dc0d1eea-99ea8100-1beb-df83c9f7db1d

[root@fi-esxi022:~] fdisk -l

***
*** The fdisk command is deprecated: fdisk does not handle GPT partitions.  Please use partedUtil
***

Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT

Disk /dev/disks/mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0: 31293440 sectors, 2992M
Logical sector size: 512
Disk identifier (GUID): f3390012-fe15-4bc3-9ce0-62bf6f0b1d82
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 31293406

Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name
   1              64            8191       4064K   0700
   5            8224          520191        249M   0700
   6          520224         1032191        249M   0700
   7         1032224         1257471        109M   0700
   8         1257504         1843199        285M   0700
   9         1843200         7086079       2560M   0700

I first noticed this when I tried to copy new patches to the host (since I dont have any other storage yet) and run out of free space. Where did the rest of the 16GB go ?

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bluefirestorm
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The rest is not allocated to any partition.

As seen from an Ubuntu Disks application.

ESXi 5.5 installed on 16GB SD for 2014 MacBook Pro host

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ESXi 6.0 installed on 16GB USB thumb drive for 2010 MacBook Pro host

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bluefirestorm
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The rest is not allocated to any partition.

As seen from an Ubuntu Disks application.

ESXi 5.5 installed on 16GB SD for 2014 MacBook Pro host

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ESXi 6.0 installed on 16GB USB thumb drive for 2010 MacBook Pro host

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hyvokar
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Is this "working as intended" ? What if I wanted all the remaining space to be available for esxi? Can I do that inside esxi, or do I need boot linux live cd or something similar?

Any idea, if this is "working as intended", since when I create a 20gb volume from local disks, vmware uses it all.

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From the looks of it, it is working as intended as in both cases I didn't have the choice of partition sizes and also warned of overwriting the selected medium which means even if the partitions were created before installation commence everything gets overwritten.

There are also recommendations to move scratch space and resize core dumps.

vSphere SSD and Flash Device Support (2145210) | VMware KB

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