This is one of my small script. And I use it to find free or unassigned unforrmatted LUNs/Disks on Esxi server. When Lun or disk from storage (most probably remote) assigned and presented to Esxi server, this LUN doesn't have any partition, and unformatted as a raw disk, This is visible when you try to add new datastore. Same list I can pull using VMware Powercli script. Script is combination of two cmdlets Get-Scsilun and Get-Datastore and processes data.
This require VMware powercli installer or module, follow this article to setup it VMWARE VSPHERE POWERCLI INSTALLATION AND CONFIGURATION STEP BY STEP. Login to esxi or vCenter with Connect-VIServer.
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function Get-FreeEsxiLUNs { ############################## #.SYNOPSIS #Shows free or unassigned SCSI LUNs/Disks on Esxi # #.DESCRIPTION #The Get-FreeEsxiLUNs cmdlet finds free or unassigned SCSI LUNs/Disks on Vmware Esxi Server. Free or unassigned disks are unformatted LUNs and need to format VMFS datastore or use as RDM (Raw Device Mapping) # #.PARAMETER Esxihost #This is VMware Esxi host name # #.EXAMPLE #Get-FreeEsxiLUNs -Esxihost Esxi001.vcloud-lab.com # #Shows free unassigned storage Luns disks on Esxi host name Esxi001.vcloud-lab.com # #.NOTES #http://vcloud-lab.com #Written using powershell version 5 #Script code version 1.0 ############################### [CmdletBinding()] param( [Parameter(Position=0, Mandatory=$true)] [System.String]$Esxihost ) Begin { if (-not(Get-Module vmware.vimautomation.core)) { Import-Module vmware.vimautomation.core } #Connect-VIServer | Out-Null } Process { $VMhost = Get-VMhost $EsxiHost $AllLUNs = $VMhost | Get-ScsiLun -LunType disk $Datastores = $VMhost | Get-Datastore foreach ($lun in $AllLUNs) { $Datastore = $Datastores | Where-Object {$_.extensiondata.info.vmfs.extent.Diskname -Match $lun.CanonicalName} if ($Datastore.Name -eq $null) { $lun | Select-Object CanonicalName, CapacityGB, Vendor } } } End {} } #Get-FreeEsxiLUNs -Esxihost |
After login, copy paste above script on powershell console (powercli), Run new function command with Get-FreeEsxiLUNs -Esxihost
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