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Figure 75.
esxcli storage filesystem list Command from ESXi Shell
This command gives us what we need. However, there is a lot of extra information in the output, making it hard
to extrapolate the VMFS version information needed for our report. We can use the
--formatter
option with
the
--format-param
filter to show only the information we need, as follows:
Figure 76.
esxcli storage filesystem list with Formatting Command from ESXi Shell
We now have a list showing all the file systems on the ESXi host, along with the corresponding VMFS versions.
From this we can easily identify those file systems that have not been upgraded to VMFS-5.