How will I know ESXi installed on the local hard drive or usb or SAN?

Hi all

Here, I have IBM Storage node flex and midsize, this storewize is divided in two. I want to know where my esxi os installed? all orders to find?

Hello

So you can run esxcfg-info-e and you will get your startup BACK type, it will be either visor-thin (means ESXi installable, means in general you are installed on the local disk or SAN), visor-usb (ESXi embedded, usually means you are installed on USB or SD or visor-pxe to PXE deployment.)

If you want to go further, you can run ls-lisa/dev/discs and you should be able to identify your device initialization as one with a load of partitions, as the vm1.0000xxxx entries in the result below:

~ # ls-lisa/dev/discs

Total 8784623329

4 0 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 512 31 Mar 14:25.

1 0 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 512 31 Mar 14:25...

165 3921920 - rw - 1 root root 4016046080 31 Mar 14:25 mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0

155 4064 - rw - 1 root root 4161536 31 Mar 14:25 mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0:1

157 255984 - rw - 1 root root 262127616 31 Mar 14:25 mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0:5

159 255984 - rw - 1 root root 262127616 31 Mar 14:25 mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0:6

161 112624 - rw - 1 root root 115326976 31 Mar 14:25 mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0:7

163 292848 - rw - 1 root root 299876352 31 Mar 14:25 mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0:8

145 4389890880 - rw - 1 root root 4495248261120 31 Mar 14:25 naa.600c0ff00012e5abe64a345301000000

143 4389889024 - rw - 1 root root 4495246360576 31 Mar 14:25 naa.600c0ff00012e5abe64a345301000000:1

166 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Mar 31 14:25 vml.0000000000766d68626133323a303a30-> mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0

156 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Mar 31 14:25 vml.0000000000766d68626133323a303a30:1-> mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0:1

158 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Mar 31 14:25 vml.0000000000766d68626133323a303a30:5-> mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0:5

160 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Mar 31 14:25 vml.0000000000766d68626133323a303a30:6-> mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0:6

162 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Mar 31 14:25 vml.0000000000766d68626133323a303a30:7-> mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0:7

164 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Mar 31 14:25 vml.0000000000766d68626133323a303a30:8-> mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0:8

If in case of doubt, you can use partedUtil to check, enter the ID and plug into partedUtil, as follows: partedUtil getptbl /dev/disks/vml.0000000000766d68626133323a303a30

If it is your boot device, you should see your systemPartition and all your Partitions ESXi...

~ # partedUtil getptbl /dev/disks/vml.0000000000766d68626133323a303a30

TPG

488 255 63 7843840

1 64 8191 C12A7328F81F11D2BA4B00A0C93EC93B systemPartition 128

5 8224 520191 EBD0A0A2B9E5443387C068B6B72699C7 linuxNative 0

6 520224 1032191 EBD0A0A2B9E5443387C068B6B72699C7 linuxNative 0

7 1032224 1257471 9D27538040AD11DBBF97000C2911D1B8 vmkDiagnostic 0

8 1257504 1843199 EBD0A0A2B9E5443387C068B6B72699C7 linuxNative 0

To further clarify, go back to your ls-lisa/dev/discs out and now you know that you have the right device, enter the path to your drive ID, in this case, mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0, then run esxcli nmp storage devices list | grep mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0

and you will get your device nickname, so:


~ # esxcli list of nmp storage device | grep mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0

MPX.vmhba32:C0:t0:l0

Device display name: USB Direct - access Local (mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0)

Hope this helps, this should be good for ESXi 5.x and above all, I believe, something you might need to sub partedUtil for fdisk.

Good luck!

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