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VMware vSphere 5.0 Evaluation Guide - Volume One 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. TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 61

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VMware vSphere 5.0 Evaluation Guide –
Volume One
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.