Specifications

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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.

--overwritevmfs

Required to overwrite an existing VMFS datastore on the disk before

installation.

--preservevmfs

Preserves an existing VMFS datastore on the disk during installation.

--novmfsondisk

Prevents a VMFS partition from being created on this disk. Must be used

with --overwritevmfs if a VMFS partition already exists on the disk.

installorupgrade

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.

--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)