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govc-datastore-manage

Run VMware vSphere SDDC Cluster Configuration operations.

This workflow creates a datastore on a remote vSphere API node. The datastore creation is controlled primarily by two Params:

  • govc/datastore-create-name - sets the name of the DataStore
  • govc/datastore-create-disk - defines what disk to make the DataStore on

Either a rule or a specific Device can be specified by the govc/datastore-create-disk Param. Supported rules and disk device definition settings examples:

  • first_available
  • disk=t10.ATA_____Micron_M500DC_MTFDDAK120MBB_____________________14260DAD9402

The default is to use the rule first_available.

The first_available rule attempts to filter out used disk devices, then chooses the first of any remaining disks that are unused.

Note

IF using the govc command, you can find the disk information with the command govc host.esxcli storage core path list (after setting up the appropriate GOVC_ environment variables, of course.).