Wednesday, September 18, 2019

New install of ESXi 6.5 creates VMFS5 datastore instead of VMFS6 !!


New install of ESXi 6.5 creates VMFS5 datastore instead of VMFS6 !!

To upgrade the ESX boot datastore to VMFS 6 version, please follow below steps !!


1. Note down the NAA ID of the data store.
2. Put ESX host into maintenance mode.
3. Unmount the data store from ESX host.
4. Delete the data store from ESX host..
5. Go to ESX host and choose New Datastore option and re-add the same data store. 
6.Choose type VMFS, give name, choose VMFS 6 version this time and finish the wizard.
7. Successfully upgrade the data store to VMFS 6.

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