Hi everyone!
I just installed esxi 6.5 from dell media to Dell PowerEdge R530 server with isdm and 2x16GB SD cards in raid1.
When installing, the esxi installer sees the SD-Raid as 14,9GB volume.
Anyway, after install when I ssh to host:
[root@fi-esxi022:~] df -h
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
vfat 285.8M 205.8M 80.0M 72% /vmfs/volumes/59007df5-ef00047d-20b7-a0369fe34cb4
vfat 249.7M 145.1M 104.6M 58% /vmfs/volumes/f301fbe0-398fd6f3-59c9-9e7006741b19
vfat 249.7M 8.0K 249.7M 0% /vmfs/volumes/dc0d1eea-99ea8100-1beb-df83c9f7db1d
[root@fi-esxi022:~] fdisk -l
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*** The fdisk command is deprecated: fdisk does not handle GPT partitions. Please use partedUtil
***
Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT
Disk /dev/disks/mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0: 31293440 sectors, 2992M
Logical sector size: 512
Disk identifier (GUID): f3390012-fe15-4bc3-9ce0-62bf6f0b1d82
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 31293406
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
1 64 8191 4064K 0700
5 8224 520191 249M 0700
6 520224 1032191 249M 0700
7 1032224 1257471 109M 0700
8 1257504 1843199 285M 0700
9 1843200 7086079 2560M 0700
I first noticed this when I tried to copy new patches to the host (since I dont have any other storage yet) and run out of free space. Where did the rest of the 16GB go ?
The rest is not allocated to any partition.
As seen from an Ubuntu Disks application.
ESXi 5.5 installed on 16GB SD for 2014 MacBook Pro host
ESXi 6.0 installed on 16GB USB thumb drive for 2010 MacBook Pro host
The rest is not allocated to any partition.
As seen from an Ubuntu Disks application.
ESXi 5.5 installed on 16GB SD for 2014 MacBook Pro host
ESXi 6.0 installed on 16GB USB thumb drive for 2010 MacBook Pro host
Is this "working as intended" ? What if I wanted all the remaining space to be available for esxi? Can I do that inside esxi, or do I need boot linux live cd or something similar?
Any idea, if this is "working as intended", since when I create a 20gb volume from local disks, vmware uses it all.
From the looks of it, it is working as intended as in both cases I didn't have the choice of partition sizes and also warned of overwriting the selected medium which means even if the partitions were created before installation commence everything gets overwritten.
There are also recommendations to move scratch space and resize core dumps.