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Naming VMFS File Systems

If you create a VMFS file system on a SCSI disk or partition, you can give a name to that

file system and use that name when specifying VMFS files on that file system. For

instance, suppose you have a VMFS file system on the SCSI partition

vmhba0:3:0:1 and have created a VMFS file nt4.dsk. You can name that file

system via a vmkfstools commands such as:

vmkfstools -S mydisk vmhba0:3:0:1

You can then refer to the nt4.dsk file as mydisk:nt4.dsk (instead of

vmhba0:3:0:1:nt4.dsk) in a virtual machine configuration file and in other

vmkfstools commands. Naming VMFS file systems is especially useful if you may

be adding SCSI adapters or disks to your system, in which case the actual disk and

target numbers specifying a particular VMFS may change, but the name stays the

same.

Mounting VMFS File Systems on the Console Operating System

VMFS file systems are automatically mounted in the /vmfs directory on the console

operating system when the VMkernel is loaded as the computer boots. The

mount-vmfs script may be used manually to mount new VMFS file systems. The

reverse operation (unmounting all VMFS partitions) can be performed by executing

umount-vmfs.

Although mounted VMFS file systems may appear similar to any other file system such

as ext2, VMFS is only intended to store large files such as disk images. Unfortunately,

the console operating system (which is based on a Linux 2.4 kernel) does not currently

support files greater than 2GB. NFS and scp are known to run into this limitation,

while FTP and cp are not affected by it. Thus, you should use FTP and cp for copying

files to and from a VMFS file system.

For more information, see Utility to Mount VMFS File Systems on page 206.

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