Specifications

Administration Guide
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9 Storage!and!File!Systems 245
File!System!Management!on!SCSI!Disks!and!RAID 245
Viewing!and!Manipulating!Files!in!the!/vmfs!Directory 246
VMFS!Volumes 247
Labelling!VMFS!Volumes 247
VMFS!Accessibility 248
VMFS!Accessibility!on!a!SAN 248
Changing!Storage!Configuration!Options 248
Using!vmkfstools 249
vmkfstools!Command!Syntax 249
vmkfstools!Syntax!When!Specifying!a!SCSI!Device 249
vmkfstools!Syntax!When!Specifying!a!VMFS!Volume!or!File 250
vmkfstools!Options 250
Basic!vmkfstools
!Options 250
Create!a!VMFS!on!the!specified!SCSI!device 251
List!the!attributes!of!a!VMFS!volume!or!a!raw!disk!mapping 251
Create!a!file!with! the!specified!size!on!the!file!system!of!the!specified!SCSI!
device 252
Export!the!contents!of!the!specified!file!on!the!specified!SCSI!device!to!a!
virtual!
disk!on!the!file!system!of!the!service!console 252
Import!the!contents!of!a!VMware!virtual,!plain,!or!raw!disk!on!the!service!
console!to!the!specified!file!on!the!specified!SCSI!device 252
List!the!files!on!the!file!system!on!the!specified!device 253
Set!the!name!of!the!VMFS!on!the!
specified!SCSI!device 253
Advanced!vmkfstools!Options 253
Commit!the!redo!log!of!the!specified!file,!making!the!associated!changes!
permanent 253
Set!the!VMFS!on!the!specified!SCSI!device!to!the!specified!mode 254
Extend!an!existing!logical!VMFS‐2!volume!by!spanning!multiple!
partitions 254
Map!a!Raw!Disk!or!Partition!to!a!File!on!a!
VMFS‐2!Volume 255
Display!Disk!Geometry!for!a!VMware!Workstation!or!GSX!Server!Virtual!
Disk 255
Extend!the!specified!VMFS!to!the!specified!length 256
Manage!SCSI!reservations!of!physical!targets!or!LUNs 256
Recovers!a!VMFS 256
Scans!the!specified!vmhba!adapter!for!devices!and!LUNs 257
Create!or!Resize!a!Swap!File!in!a!VMFS!Volume!of
!the!specified!SCSI!
device 257
Activate!a!Swap!File 258