Specifications

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Clears any existing partitions on the disk. Requires install command to be specified.

--drives=

Remove partitions on the specified drives.

--alldrives

Ignores the --drives= requirement and allows clearing of partitions on every

drive.

--ignoredrives=

Removes partitions on all drives except those specified. Required unless the

--drives= or --alldrives flag is specified.

--overwritevmfs

Permits overwriting of VMFS partitions on the specified drives. By default,

overwriting VMFS partitions is not allowed.

--firstdisk=

disk-type1

[disk-type2,...]

Partitions the first eligible disk found. By default, the eligible disks are set to

the following order:

1 Locally attached storage (local)

2 Network storage (remote)

3 USB disks (usb)

You can change the order of the disks by using a comma separated list

appended to the argument. If you provide a filter list, the default settings are

overridden. You can combine filters to specify a particular disk, including

esx for the first disk with ESX installed on it, model and vendor information,

or the name of the vmkernel device driver. For example, to prefer a disk with

the model name ST3120814A and any disk that uses the mptsas driver rather

than a normal local disk, the argument is

--firstdisk=ST3120814A,mptsas,local.

dryrun (optional)

Parses and checks the installation script. Does not perform the installation.

install

Specifies that this is a fresh installation. Replaces the deprecated autopart command used for ESXi 4.1

scripted installations. Either the install, upgrade, or installorupgrade command is required to determine

which disk to install or upgrade ESXi on.

--disk= or --drive=

Specifies the disk to partition. In the command --disk=diskname, the diskname

can be in any of the forms shown in the following examples:

Path: --disk=/vmfs/devices/disks/mpx.vmhba1:C0:T0:L0

MPX name: --disk=mpx.vmhba1:C0:T0:L0

VML name: --disk=vml.000000034211234

vmkLUN UID: --disk=vmkLUN_UID

For accepted disk name formats, see “Disk Device Names,” on page 125.