In VMware Cloud Foundation deployments, vSAN automatically claims all local storage devices on your ESXi host. You can make the devices ineligible for regular vSAN and available for vSAN Direct.

This topic describes how you can use the esxcli command to mark the devices as vSAN Direct. Alternately, you can use a script. See Using Script to Tag Storage Devices for vSAN Direct.

Procedure

  1. Tag local storage device for vSAN Direct.
    esxcli vsan storage tag add -d diskName -t vsanDirect

    For example,

    esxcli vsan storage tag add -d mpx.vmhba0:C0:T1:L0 -t vsanDirect

    The device becomes ineligible for regular vSAN.
  2. Remove the vSAN Direct tag from the device.
    esxcli vsan storage tag remove -d diskName -t vsanDirect

    For example,

    esxcli vsan storage tag remove -d mpx.vmhba0:C0:T1:L0 -t vsanDirect