Esxcli Storage Vmfs Unmap L

Unmap is now an automatic behavior.

Esxcli storage vmfs unmap l. Esxcli storage vmfs reclaim config set volume label datastorename reclaim priority high. Read about how we use cookies and how you can control them here if you continue to use this site you consent to our use of cookies. November 28 2016 at 12 35 pm hey cody ive been using the poweractions version of your script. Out of curiosity have you tried running esxcli storage vmfs unmap on the datastores that fail.

When you use the command be aware that it might send many unmap requests at a time. We use cookies for advertising social media and analytics purposes. The first value is the block count per iteration which as spoken about in earlier posts 60 000 suffices. This seems like a communication problem though with the selected host from powercli.

Ive gone ahead and updated my ps sdk to 1 6 and. Vmfs 6 no more manual unmap. I d be curious to know if it fails that way too. While the vsphere client will reflect the higher priority setting if you change it.

Vmfs5 and earlier file systems do not unmap free space automatically but you can use the esxcli storage vmfs unmap command to reclaim space manually. This action can lock some of the resources during the operation. To set esxi reclaim unmap priority to high. The null value is the uuid of the datastore which can be optionally specified instead of the vmfs label in case you are writing a script that you want to future proof against future.

Replace the vmhost with an esxi host and the datastore name with whichever vmfs volume you want to unmap. But it s not immediate. You can confirm these settings took effect by running the first get command to view the settings or view the datastore in the storage section of the vsphere client.