Skip to content

VMware

Rescan Storage

How to rescan storage ?

demo

USB Datastore

How to add an USB hard drive as Datastore ?

Disabling usb arbitrator service

Stopping

/etc/init.d/usbarbitrator stop

Disabling

chkconfig usbarbitrator off

Labeling

partedUtil mklabel /dev/disks/mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0 gpt

Get the partition table

⚠️ This command will bring you a number :

eval expr $(partedUtil getptbl /dev/disks/mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0 | tail -1 | awk '{print $1 " \\* " $2 " \\* " $3}') - 1

Dont forget to fill the number found :

partedUtil setptbl /dev/disks/mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0 gpt "1 2048 ${NUMBER} AA31E02A400F11DB9590000C2911D1B8 0"

Last step

vmkfstools -C vmfs6 -S USB-Datastore /dev/disks/mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0:1

License

Removing License

rm -r /etc/vmware/license.cfg

Get a new trial license

cp /etc/vmware/.#license.cfg /etc/vmware/license.cfg

Restarting VPXA

/etc/init.d/vpxa restart