I've just completed an interactive install of ESXi 6.5d. I specified a 8GB USB drive as the installation destintation, After boot, I see mounted volumes from df -h as follows:
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
vfat 4.0G 6.1M 4.0G 0% /vmfs/volumes/593ef988-40074c90-8763-0cc47ad3f8ea
vfat 285.8M 205.8M 80.0M 72% /vmfs/volumes/593f0a6c-93d7c0b8-4936-0cc47ad3f8ea
vfat 249.7M 146.3M 103.4M 59% /vmfs/volumes/0f49b2e4-abd1b588-1dbe-d4db43561a2d
vfat 249.7M 8.0K 249.7M 0% /vmfs/volumes/a2b631e3-81c6c2e9-bc45-dd796724fade
However, I can't find a way to map those UUIDs back to physical devices. After consulting https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1014953 it appears that none of those UUID show up in the output of "esxcli storage core path list ", "esxcli storage core device list", or "ls -alh /vmfs/devices/disks". "esxcli storage vmfs extent list" shows no output because all of these filesystems are VFAT.
The problem I am trying to solve is, it would appear that the 4G filesystem is /scratch and is installed on a 6TB hard drive. I assume the rest are on the USB drive. I infer this because I see one of my 6TB hard drives in use, and I was able to delete every partition off of it except for a 4G filesystem. So my questions are:
1) Is this the expected behavior, to install /scratch on a hard drive? (I recall seeing somewhere that this is what happens when the USB media is 8GB or below, and that with 16GB media, /scratch would go onto the USB media by default.
2) I actually would prefer scratch on a hard drive, but is the 4GB scratch partition going to prevent the rest of the drive from being used for VSAN?
3) How can I trace the UUIDs from df -h back to the phyical disk devices?
Thanks -w