https://ithinkvirtual.com/tags/usb_vmfs5/Recent content in USB_VMFS5 on iThinkVirtual™Hugoen-usSat, 10 Feb 2018 14:33:36 -0500https://ithinkvirtual.com/posts/create-vmfs5-datastore-on-a-usb-drive/Sun, 14 Aug 2016 21:45:09 -0400https://ithinkvirtual.com/posts/create-vmfs5-datastore-on-a-usb-drive/<p><em><strong>Create A VMFS5 Datastore On A USB Drive</strong></em></p> <p>Ever wondered if it was possible to use a USB Drive as a VMFS5 datastore in VMware vSphere 6.0? I sure know that I have! Not that I would like to run any VM’s on said datastore, as I’m sure performance would not be optimal, but instead to test its functionality and use it for storing ESXi host logs for example. Well, I ran into an issue today where I needed to unmount all of my NFS mounts on ESXi 6.0 U2 in order to recreate some of the volumes before remounting them. The problem was that I was unable to unmount one of my volumes because it was bound to the ESXi host for scratch logs. As I didn’t have a spare drive of any sort to attach to my host so that I could reconfigure the location for scratch logs, I began tinkering with the idea of using a small USB drive as a temporary datastore for these logs.</p>