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Chapter 6 Administering ESX Server
Removing a Disk Partition
To!convert!the!partition!to!VMFS‐2,!click!the!Convert!to!VMFS‐2!link.!To!convert!the!
file!system,!you!must!deactivate!the!swap!partition!if!it!exists.!See!“Configuring!a!Swap!
File”!on!page 203.
To!remove!the!partition,!click!Remove.!You!are!asked!to!confirm!that!you!want!to!
remove
!the!partition.!To!delete!certain!partitions,!click!Edit!and!Remove.!
See!“File!System!Management!on!SCSI!Disks!and!RAID”!on!page 245.
Viewing Failover Paths Connections
The!Failover!Paths!tab!lets!you!review!the!current!state!of!paths!between!your!system!
and!SAN!LUNs.!Multipathing!support!allows!your!system!to!maintain!a!constant!
connection!between!the!server!machine!and!the!storage!device!in!case!of!the!failure!of!
a!host!bus!adapter!(HBA),!switch,!storage!controller,!or
!a!Fibre!Channel!cable.!
Figure 6-6. Failover Paths tab
For!each!SAN!LUN,!this!page!displays!the!available!paths!and!the!preferred!path.!By!
default,!ESX!Server!selects!the!last!path!used!to!access!a!LUN.
The!failover!paths!show!the!adapter,!target,!LUN,!and!the! SAN!target!for!the!LUN.!
Each!SAN!target!is
!identified!by!its!World!Wide!Port!Name.
CAUTION Metadata!on!VMFS‐2!volumes!utilize!more!space!than!metadata!on!VMFS‐1!
volumes.!To!successfully!convert!a!file!partition,!you!might!need!to!move!
files!to!allow!for!more!disk!space.!
NOTE
If!the!volume!is!spanned!to!other!volumes,!you!cannot!remove!it.!