Partitions / Volumes

This hypervisor has 1 x 250GB NVMe SSD (Kingston A2000) and 1 x 2TB Samsung 870 QVO SATA SSD.

To identify the disks and partitions;

[root@localhost:~] ls -l /vmfs/devices/disks/
total 4395419064
-rw-------    1 root     root     2000398934016 Apr 29 04:54 t10.ATA_____Samsung_SSD_870_QVO_2TB_________________S5SUNF0R913749K_____
-rw-------    1 root     root     2000396747264 Apr 29 04:54 t10.ATA_____Samsung_SSD_870_QVO_2TB_________________S5SUNF0R913749K_____:2
-rw-------    1 root     root     250059350016 Apr 29 04:54 t10.NVMe____KINGSTON_SA2000M8250G___________________C5593D5168B72600
-rw-------    1 root     root     104857600 Apr 29 04:54 t10.NVMe____KINGSTON_SA2000M8250G___________________C5593D5168B72600:1
-rw-------    1 root     root     4293918720 Apr 29 04:54 t10.NVMe____KINGSTON_SA2000M8250G___________________C5593D5168B72600:5
-rw-------    1 root     root     4293918720 Apr 29 04:54 t10.NVMe____KINGSTON_SA2000M8250G___________________C5593D5168B72600:6
-rw-------    1 root     root     128742064128 Apr 29 04:54 t10.NVMe____KINGSTON_SA2000M8250G___________________C5593D5168B72600:7
-rw-------    1 root     root     112619331072 Apr 29 04:54 t10.NVMe____KINGSTON_SA2000M8250G___________________C5593D5168B72600:8
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            68 Apr 29 04:54 vml.0100000000433535395f334435315f363842375f32363030004b494e475354 -> t10.NVMe____KINGSTON_SA2000M8250G___________________C5593D5168B72600
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            70 Apr 29 04:54 vml.0100000000433535395f334435315f363842375f32363030004b494e475354:1 -> t10.NVMe____KINGSTON_SA2000M8250G___________________C5593D5168B72600:1
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            70 Apr 29 04:54 vml.0100000000433535395f334435315f363842375f32363030004b494e475354:5 -> t10.NVMe____KINGSTON_SA2000M8250G___________________C5593D5168B72600:5
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            70 Apr 29 04:54 vml.0100000000433535395f334435315f363842375f32363030004b494e475354:6 -> t10.NVMe____KINGSTON_SA2000M8250G___________________C5593D5168B72600:6
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            70 Apr 29 04:54 vml.0100000000433535395f334435315f363842375f32363030004b494e475354:7 -> t10.NVMe____KINGSTON_SA2000M8250G___________________C5593D5168B72600:7
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            70 Apr 29 04:54 vml.0100000000433535395f334435315f363842375f32363030004b494e475354:8 -> t10.NVMe____KINGSTON_SA2000M8250G___________________C5593D5168B72600:8
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            72 Apr 29 04:54 vml.0100000000533553554e4630523931333734394b202020202053616d73756e -> t10.ATA_____Samsung_SSD_870_QVO_2TB_________________S5SUNF0R913749K_____
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            74 Apr 29 04:54 vml.0100000000533553554e4630523931333734394b202020202053616d73756e:2 -> t10.ATA_____Samsung_SSD_870_QVO_2TB_________________S5SUNF0R913749K_____:2
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            68 Apr 29 04:54 vml.052b2c3dd7d64c86be0724a2e781d8178a37266e63476cfc9276f4517b9d400370 -> t10.NVMe____KINGSTON_SA2000M8250G___________________C5593D5168B72600
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            70 Apr 29 04:54 vml.052b2c3dd7d64c86be0724a2e781d8178a37266e63476cfc9276f4517b9d400370:1 -> t10.NVMe____KINGSTON_SA2000M8250G___________________C5593D5168B72600:1
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            70 Apr 29 04:54 vml.052b2c3dd7d64c86be0724a2e781d8178a37266e63476cfc9276f4517b9d400370:5 -> t10.NVMe____KINGSTON_SA2000M8250G___________________C5593D5168B72600:5
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            70 Apr 29 04:54 vml.052b2c3dd7d64c86be0724a2e781d8178a37266e63476cfc9276f4517b9d400370:6 -> t10.NVMe____KINGSTON_SA2000M8250G___________________C5593D5168B72600:6
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            70 Apr 29 04:54 vml.052b2c3dd7d64c86be0724a2e781d8178a37266e63476cfc9276f4517b9d400370:7 -> t10.NVMe____KINGSTON_SA2000M8250G___________________C5593D5168B72600:7
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            70 Apr 29 04:54 vml.052b2c3dd7d64c86be0724a2e781d8178a37266e63476cfc9276f4517b9d400370:8 -> t10.NVMe____KINGSTON_SA2000M8250G___________________C5593D5168B72600:8

We can then run partedUtil on the specified disk to identify partitions. The A2000 has ESXi installed.

[root@localhost:~] partedUtil getptbl "/vmfs/devices/disks/t10.NVMe____KINGSTON_SA2000M8250G___________________C5593D5168B72600"
gpt
30401 255 63 488397168
1 64 204863 C12A7328F81F11D2BA4B00A0C93EC93B systemPartition 128
5 208896 8595455 EBD0A0A2B9E5443387C068B6B72699C7 linuxNative 0
6 8597504 16984063 EBD0A0A2B9E5443387C068B6B72699C7 linuxNative 0
7 16986112 268435455 4EB2EA3978554790A79EFAE495E21F8D vmfsl 0
8 268437504 488397134 AA31E02A400F11DB9590000C2911D1B8 vmfs 0

The QVO is configured as a single VMFS datastore

[root@localhost:~] partedUtil getptbl "/vmfs/devices/disks/t10.ATA_____Samsung_SSD_870_QVO_2TB_________________S5SUNF0R913749K_____"
gpt
243201 255 63 3907029168
2 2048 3907026944 AA31E02A400F11DB9590000C2911D1B8 vmfs 0