A vSphere Web Client task fails while creating a VMFS datastore on a disk with these characteristics: - The disk was formatted with an Master Boot Record (MBR) partition table - The disk was not…

The correct answer is A. Delete the partitions manually with partedUtil. You can use the partedUtil command line utility to directly manipulate partition tables for local and remote SAN disks on ESXi and ESX. The partedUtil command line only is supported for disk partitioning from ESXi 5.x. The command line utility fdisk does not work with LUNs…

Section 3 – Configure and Administer vSphere 6.x Storage

Question

A vSphere Web Client task fails while creating a VMFS datastore on a disk with these characteristics:

The disk was formatted with an Master Boot Record (MBR) partition

table

The disk was not erased
The disk is visible in the vSphere Web Client

What action needs to be performed to resolve the issue?

Options

ADelete the partitions manually with partedUtil.
BCreate a VMFS3 file system first, then upgrade it.
CCreate a VMFS5 file system with the command esxcli storage filesystem add.
DDelete the data with the vmkfstools command.

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Explanation

You can use the partedUtil command line utility to directly manipulate partition tables for local and remote SAN disks on ESXi and ESX. The partedUtil command line only is supported for disk partitioning from ESXi 5.x. The command line utility fdisk does not work with LUNs formatted with VMFS5.

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#VMFS datastore#MBR partition#disk preparation#partedUtil

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