Another basics posts for those of us who have not had the experience of installing and configuring ESXi 6.5. Today we will configure our Datastores.
Once we have logged into our ESXi client web page, click on Storage and the Datastore Tab
The initial Datastore is the media that you installed your ESXi “OS” on. For me it was a 64GB SATADOM. I do not wish to place any VMs on this, but I do have a NVMe Drive installed in the machine that I want my vSphere and vRealize components to live on. The thinking is if the NVMe drive fails, I will have backups of those VMs and be able to purchase and install a new drive, and then restore the VMs.
To setup the new Datastore, click New datastore and select Create new VMFS datastore and Click Next
Then we would select our device to install the Datastore on and continue on our merry way. Wait though, does anyone see the NVMe drive? Why isn’t it there?
Now it’s possible that this is a quirk of the new Install or its a quirk of the HTML5 Client. I have noticed at least with vSphere in my job that you still have to fall back to the “Fat” Client from time to time. In this case we do not.
If we click on the Devices Tab and highlight the NVMe drive, we get the option to select New Datastore
When we click that we get the Option to Name Our Datastore, Partition it, and then complete the steps. It seems it is just a shortened version of the Datastore Creation Wizard, and that the Storage Datastore Creation Wizard doesn’t have the necessary code to recognize the NVMe Drive.
So first we name the drive.
Then we Partition it utilizing the entire drive
Accept the Warning and we are complete.
Going back to the Datastore Tab we see the two stores.
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