ESXi add datastore without partitioning

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Published on 2010-12-29T04:55:41Z Indexed on 2010/12/29 5:55 UTC
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hi all,

I've recently started playing with ESXI and now want to move all my current data (movies etc) to an openfiler vm image.

Currently I have esxi 4.1 running off a Patriot XT memory stick and a 500gb hdd for the VM datastore which I will put OF on.

How do I go about adding in the other hard drives I have to make them available to the OF machine without losing the data on them? They are currently formatted as NTFS

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