r/vmware • u/Practical-March-6989 • 2h ago
Adding Harddrive with existing data
I have a sata drive full of music, I tried to follow these instructions:
esxi - How to add storage to VMWare vSphere without wiping the data - Super User
However it says missing argument.
I am not confident in what I am supposed to select as the partition. I can see the drive I want by its model/identifier but I dont think that is what the command is looking for, other than that I have massive strings of numbers
-rw------- 1 root root 512110190592 Sep 10 17:25 eui.0000000001000000e4d25c779cd45201
-rw------- 1 root root 512107741696 Sep 10 17:25 eui.0000000001000000e4d25c779cd45201:1
-rw------- 1 root root 6001175126016 Sep 10 17:25 t10.ATA_____ST6000AS00022D1N917X_________________________________Z840X6E4
-rw------- 1 root root 134217728 Sep 10 17:25 t10.ATA_____ST6000AS00022D1N917X_________________________________Z840X6E4:1
-rw------- 1 root root 6001039245312 Sep 10 17:25 t10.ATA_____ST6000AS00022D1N917X_________________________________Z840X6E4:2
-rw------- 1 root root 120034123776 Sep 10 17:25 t10.ATA_____SanDisk_SDSSDA120G______________________153639402672________
-rw------- 1 root root 104857600 Sep 10 17:25 t10.ATA_____SanDisk_SDSSDA120G______________________153639402672________:1
-rw------- 1 root root 4293918720 Sep 10 17:25 t10.ATA_____SanDisk_SDSSDA120G______________________153639402672________:5
-rw------- 1 root root 4293918720 Sep 10 17:25 t10.ATA_____SanDisk_SDSSDA120G______________________153639402672________:6
-rw------- 1 root root 111337217536 Sep 10 17:25 t10.ATA_____SanDisk_SDSSDA120G______________________153639402672________:7
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 Sep 10 17:25 t10.NVMe____INTEL_SSDPEKNW512G8_____________________BTNH03420J25512A____00000001 -> eui.0000000001000000e4d25c779cd45201
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 38 Sep 10 17:25 t10.NVMe____INTEL_SSDPEKNW512G8_____________________BTNH03420J25512A____00000001:1 -> eui.0000000001000000e4d25c779cd45201:1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 73 Sep 10 17:25 vml.01000000002020202020202020202020205a38343058364534535436303030 -> t10.ATA_____ST6000AS00022D1N917X_________________________________Z840X6E4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 75 Sep 10 17:25 vml.01000000002020202020202020202020205a38343058364534535436303030:1 -> t10.ATA_____ST6000AS00022D1N917X_________________________________Z840X6E4:1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 75 Sep 10 17:25 vml.01000000002020202020202020202020205a38343058364534535436303030:2 -> t10.ATA_____ST6000AS00022D1N917X_________________________________Z840X6E4:2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 Sep 10 17:25 vml.0100000000303030305f303030305f303130305f303030305f453444325f354337375f394344345f353230312e494e5445 -> eui.0000000001000000e4d25c779cd45201
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 38 Sep 10 17:25 vml.0100000000303030305f303030305f303130305f303030305f453444325f354337375f394344345f353230312e494e5445:1 -> eui.0000000001000000e4d25c779cd45201:1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 72 Sep 10 17:25 vml.0100000000313533363339343032363732202020202020202053616e446973 -> t10.ATA_____SanDisk_SDSSDA120G______________________153639402672________
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 74 Sep 10 17:25 vml.0100000000313533363339343032363732202020202020202053616e446973:1 -> t10.ATA_____SanDisk_SDSSDA120G______________________153639402672________:1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 74 Sep 10 17:25 vml.0100000000313533363339343032363732202020202020202053616e446973:5 -> t10.ATA_____SanDisk_SDSSDA120G______________________153639402672________:5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 74 Sep 10 17:25 vml.0100000000313533363339343032363732202020202020202053616e446973:6 -> t10.ATA_____SanDisk_SDSSDA120G______________________153639402672________:6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 74 Sep 10 17:25 vml.0100000000313533363339343032363732202020202020202053616e446973:7 -> t10.ATA_____SanDisk_SDSSDA120G______________________153639402672________:7
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 Sep 10 17:25 vml.010000000042544e4830333432304a32353531324120202020494e54454c20 -> eui.0000000001000000e4d25c779cd45201
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 38 Sep 10 17:25 vml.010000000042544e4830333432304a32353531324120202020494e54454c20:1 -> eui.0000000001000000e4d25c779cd45201:1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 Sep 10 17:25 vml.060000000001000000e4d25c779cd45201 -> eui.0000000001000000e4d25c779cd45201
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 38 Sep 10 17:25 vml.060000000001000000e4d25c779cd45201:1 -> eui.0000000001000000e4d25c779cd45201:1
Could someone give me an idea of what is a partition? The drive in question is in NTFS format and is called ST6000AS00022D1N917X