By default, when you install VMware ESXi, a datastore is already created on the physical disk where it is installed.
However, for reasons of performance and flexibility, we advise you to store your VM templates, ... on a second physical disk or on a RAID logical disk.
To create a datastore from the VMware vSphere Client, select the desired VMware ESXi host and click: Actions -> Storage -> New Datastore.
In the "New Datastore" wizard, select "VMFS" to create a datastore on a local disk and click on Next.
Specify a name for the datastore to create and select the disk on which you want to create it.
Select the desired VMFS file system version.
Preferably, use VMFS 6 since it is newer and better than VMFS 5.
Indeed, VMFS 6 allows, for example, to automatically recover free space (which had to be done manually previously).
However, VMFS 5 and VMFS 6 support capacities of 2 TB or more.
For the configuration of the partition, you can choose:
Note that expanding a datastore is not as simple under VMware vCenter Server as it was before under VMware ESXi.
Indeed, enlargement is not always possible due to filters activated by default for security reasons (to avoid data corruption).
Source : Configure Space Reclamation for a VMFS6 Datastore - VMware Docs.
A summary of your datastore configuration appears.
Click Finish.
The created datastore appears.
In recent tasks, you will see these tasks appear:
Click on the name of the created datastore or find it in the 3rd tab (Storage) on the left.
In the "Summary" section, you will see:
In the "Details" block, you will be able to see:
To view the contents of this datastore and add files to it, go to the "Files" tab of this datastore.
As you can see, you can create folders there (New folder), add files (Upload files), ...
In the "Hosts" tab of this datastore, you will see the hosts who have access to it.
In the "VM" tab of this datastore, you will be able to see the list of virtual machines and VM models found in it.
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