Greetings,
It started when I realized that I cannot create LUN-backed datastore larger than 2 TB using
CreateVmfsDatastore
even though vSphere Client (ESXi 5.1.0) creates it without complaints. No matter what size of datastore I specify, it appears with size 2 TB sitting on MBR partition (original LUN is raw). In attempts to make it working I specified
vmfsDatastoreCreateSpec.partition.partitionFormat = vim.HostDiskPartitionInfoPartitionFormat.gpt
vmfsDatastoreCreateSpec.vmfs.majorVersion = 5
without desired effect. Digging deeper, I thought I can split operations what
CreateVmfsDatastore
performs (presumably) behind the scene:
UpdateDiskPartitions
+
FormatVmfs
, so my call looked like:
devicePath = '/vmfs/devices/disks/naa.600a0980383030364746314b464d6f2f'
diskPartitionSpec = self.storageSystem.RetrieveDiskPartitionInfo(devicePathdevicePath])[0].spec
diskPartitionSpec.partitionFormat = vim.HostDiskPartitionInfoPartitionFormat.gpt
type = vim.HostDiskPartitionInfoType.vmfs
logical = False
attributes = 0
partition = 1
startSector = 2048
endSector = diskPartitionSpec.totalSectors - 2048
partitionAttributes = vim.HostDiskPartitionAttributes(attributes=attributes, endSector=endSector,
logical=logical, partition=partition, startSector=startSector, type=type)
diskPartitionSpec.partition =
self.storageSystem.UpdateDiskPartitions(devicePath=devicePath, spec=diskPartitionSpec)
No effect again, LUN appears as formatted with MBR. Could someone be so kind to shed the light on this magic and direct me how to create GPT partitioning?
Thank you!
