Vmkfstools Windows 7

May 17, 2009  If you're using classic ESX, the path to vmkfstools is /usr/sbin/vmkfstools and it's installed by default. VMware vExpert 2009. Thanks so much, this solution is way simplier for a windows guy like me!!

There are a number of VMFS filesystem related tasks you can run using vmkfstools. Query a VMFS Volume You can get information on a VMFS volume by running the following vmkfstools command: ~ # vmkfstools --queryfs -h /vmfs/volumes/NewVOL/ VMFS-3.54 file system spanning 1 partitions. File system label (if any): NewVOL Mode: public Capacity 2.2 GB, 1.7 GB available, file block size 1 MB UUID: 4ff9bb71-c02-0a Partitions spanned (on 'lvm'): mpx.vmhba1:C0:T2:L0:1 Is Native Snapshot Capable: NO Creating a VMFS Volume using vmkfstools VMware recommend using the vSphere client for creating any new VMFS datastores, but if you do have reason to create one from the command line, this is how it is done. First of all we need to create a partition on our new disk. This is done by running partedUtil.

Using thin provisioned virtual disks can provide many benefits. Not only do they allow over-provisioning, but with the prevalence of flash storage, performance degradation really isn’t a concern like it used to be. I recently ran into a situation in my home lab where my Windows jump box ran out of disk space. I had downloaded a bunch of OVA and ISO files and had forgotten to move them over to a shared drive that I use for archiving. I expanded the disk by 10GB to take it from 40GB to 50GB, and moved off all the large files.

After this, I had about 26GB used and 23GB free – much better. Because that jump box is sitting on flash storage – which is limited in my lab – I had thin provisioned this VM to conserve as much disk space as possible. Despite freeing up lots of space, the VM’s VMDK was still consuming a lot more than 26GB.

Notice below that doing a normal directory listing displays the maximum possible size of a thin disk. In this case, the disk has been expanded to 50GB: [root@esx0:/vmfs/volumes/58f77a6f-30961726-ac7e-002655e1b06c/jump] ls -lha total 49741856 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3.0K Feb 12 21:50. Drwxr-xr-t 1 root root 4.1K Feb 16 16:13.

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