VMware vSphere 5.1 Cookbook
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Chapter 5. Creating and Managing VMFS Datastores

In this chapter we will cover the following:

  • Viewing the LUNs presented to an ESXi host
  • Viewing the datastores seen by the ESXi hosts
  • Viewing the multipathing information of a LUN
  • Creating a VMFS datastore
  • Expanding/growing a VMFS datastore
  • Extending a VMFS datastore
  • Unmounting a VMFS datastore
  • Mounting a VMFS datastore
  • Deleting a VMFS datastore
  • Upgrading VMFS-3 to VMFS-5
  • Mounting VMFS on a snapshot LUN
  • Resignaturing VMFS on a snapshot LUN
  • Masking paths to a LUN
  • Unmasking paths to a LUN
  • Creating a datastore cluster
  • Enabling Storage DRS