ESXi 4.1 latest build

[Dr. Pain]

Ive just done a fresh install of this, and was surprised to find that under the disk properties its created flipping loads of partitions.

Like the following:-

Primary Partitions
1. DOS 16bit <32Mb
2. DOS 16bit >32Mb
3. VMFS
4. Extended

Logical Partitions
5. DOS 16bit >32Mb
6. DOS 16bit >32Mb
7. VMWARE Diagnostic
8. DOS 16bit >32Mb

I dont ever remember ESX being that messy, and also can you get any advanced options upon install ?? With ESXi it takes the entire disk and turns it into a single datastore, whereas I want two local datastores taking half the disk each. Is there a secret hidden advanced drive options in the ESXi installation that can be enabled with a key combination.

Anyway aside from that, does everyone else get all those local partitions after a FRESH Esxi 4.1 install ?

Cheers for any help should anyone know!

 

[Dr. Pain]

As for your datastore - why not just delete the datastore and re-create it smaller?



M.

Hey buddy, I just did that and it doesnt work... Deleting the local storage and then re-adding it with half its capacity works fine, until I want to add a second datastore, where the local disk doesnt even show up in the initial Disk/LUN screen.

I dont understand what on earth its doing.

Once its deleted, and recreated with half its original size, the rest of the free space does not show up under the partition information screen.