You can use the storage assigned to an ESXi host as either a Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) datastore or a raw device mapping (RDM). RDMs are not supported on the NVMe over Fibre Channel protocol.
Before you begin
The volumes mapped to the ESXi host must have been discovered properly.
About this task
All 6.x and 7 x versions of ESXi support VMFS versions 5 and 6.
Procedure
- For instructions on creating VMFS datastores using either the vSphere Client or the vSphere Web Client, see the VMware pubs webpage (https://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/) for documentation on this topic.
- For instructions on using volumes as RDMs using either the vSphere Client or the vSphere Web Client, see the VMware pubs webpage (https://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/) for documentation on this topic.