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VMware ESX Server Administration Guide
For more information, see File System Management on SCSI Disks and RAID on
page 255.
• Convert the partition to VMFS-2. Click the Convert to VMFS-2 link. In order to
convert the file system, you must deactivate the swap partition if it exists. To
deactivate the partition, see Configuring a Swap File on page 241.
• Removing the partition.
Click Remove. You are asked to confirm that you want to remove the partition.
You cannot remove a volume that is spanned.
Adapter Bindings
This Adapter Bindings view displays the World Wide Port Names bound to each Fibre
Channel host bus adapter (HBA) in the system. You can also view the persistent
binding status for each HBA. With persistent bindings, ESX Server assigns specific
target IDs to specific SCSI devices. This target ID association is retained from reboot to
reboot unless changed by you.
Persistent bindings are particularly useful if you are using raw disks with ESX Server. A
raw disk is directly mapped to a physical disk drive on your storage area network
(SAN). ESX Server directly accesses the data on this disk as a raw device (and not as a
file on a VMFS volume).