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datastore on iSCSI SAN

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danswartz

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So I have my datastore on an iSCSI backed SAN and it is working great. 1TB pool for VMs and all that goodness. Here is the question: apparently when I did the install, the esxi installer created a datastore called 'datastore1' on the SAN LUN. There is absolutely nothing there at all. I had an 8GB LUN, and the installer carved out various partitions for esxi directories, boot banks, etc... So, do I actually need that 'datastore1' datastore? I'd like to just unmount and delete it, since it just clutters up the storage view...
 
You can delete it, yes, but make sure it's not being used for scratch space.
 
Actually, ssh'ed in an went to the /vmfs/volumes/"Boot SAN" directory and found these:

.fbb.sf
.fdc.sf
.pb2.sf
.pbc.sf
.sbc.sf
.vh.sf

are these interesting? From what I see, these are filesystem metadata files. the fact there are no directories or other files would seem to indicate this is a completely unused datastore?
 
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Well, yes, they're very interesting. They're the resource metadata files that make VMFS work ;)

But they're not scratch files or the like :p
 
Blow it away. When booting from SAN I always delete the tiny VMFS datastore that gets created by default.
 
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