VMWare ESXi 5.5 — Transform a Datastore to SSD

login as: root

Using keyboard-interactive authentication.

Password:

The time and date of this login have been sent to the system logs.

VMware offers supported, powerful system administration tools.  Please

see www.vmware.com/go/sysadmintools for details.

The ESXi Shell can be disabled by an administrative user. See the

vSphere Security documentation for more information.

~ # esxcli storage nmp satp rule add -s VMW_SATP_LOCAL -d naa.6b8ca3a0f29658001b5e6d700889dc78 -o enable_ssd

~ # esxcli storage core claiming reclaim -d naa.6b8ca3a0f29658001b5e6d700889dc78

Unable to unclaim path vmhba1:C2:T1:L0 on device naa.6b8ca3a0f29658001b5e6d700889dc78. Some paths may be left in an unclaimed state. You will need to claim them manually using the appropriate commands or wait for periodic path claiming to reclaim them automatically.

~ # vim-cmd hostsvc/storage/refresh

~ #

For the error:

Unable to unclaim path vmhba1:C2:T1:L0 on device naa.6b8ca3a0f29658001b5e6d700889dc78. Some paths may be left in an unclaimed state. You will need to claim them manually using the appropriate commands or wait for periodic path claiming to reclaim them automatically.

Just reboot your machine