Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Either the selected disk already has a VMFS datastore or the host cannot perform a partition table conversion. Select another disk.


~ # partedUtil get /dev/disks/naa.60000970000195702626533033333137
32768 64 32 67109760
4 32 8191 4 128
1 8192 1843199 5 0
5 8224 520191 6 0
6 520224 1032191 6 0
7 1032224 1257471 252 0
8 1257504 1843199 6 0
2 1843200 10229759 6 0
3 10229760 67109759 251 0
~ # vmkfstools -C vmfs5 /dev/disks/naa.60000970000195702626533033333137\:3
VMFS5 file system creation is deprecated on a BIOS/MBR partition on device 'naa.60000970000195702626533033333137:3'
Checking if remote hosts are using this device as a valid file system. This may take a few seconds...
Creating vmfs5 file system on "naa.60000970000195702626533033333137:3" with blockSize 1048576 and volume label "none".
Successfully created new volume: 564c2670-edf64eb6-b2c6-0025b513209b