•Attaching or Detaching Partitions
•Deleting Existing Partitions
•Downloading Partition Contents
•Booting to a Partition
NOTE: If you click any option on the vFlash pages when an application such as WS-MAN, iDRAC
Settings utility, or RACADM is using vFlash, or if you navigate to some other page in the GUI, iDRAC
may display the message: vFlash is currently in use by another process. Try again
after some time.
vFlash is capable of performing fast partition creation when there is no other on-going vFlash operation
such as formatting, attaching partitions, and so on. Therefore, it is recommended to first create all
partitions before performing other individual partition operations.
Creating an Empty Partition
An empty partition, when attached to the system, is similar to an empty USB flash drive. You can create
empty partitions on a vFlash SD card. You can create partitions of type Floppy or Hard Disk. The partition
type CD is supported only while creating partitions using images.
Before creating an empty partition, make sure that:
• You have Access Virtual Media privilege.
• The card is initialized.
• The card is not write-protected.
• An initialize operation is not being performed on the card.

Creating an Empty Partition Using the Web Interface

To create an empty vFlash partition:
1. In iDRAC Web interface, go to Overview → Server → vFlash → Create Empty Partition.
The Create Empty Partition page is displayed.
2. Specify the required information and click Apply. For information about the options, see the iDRAC
Online Help.
A new unformatted empty partition is created that is read-only by default. A page indicating the
progress percentage is displayed. An error message is displayed if:
• The card is write-protected.
• The label name matches the label of an existing partition.
• A non-integer value is entered for the partition size, the value exceeds the available space on the
card, or the partition size is greater than 4 GB.
• An initialize operation is being performed on the card.

Creating an Empty Partition Using RACADM

To create a 20 MB empty partition:
1. Open a telnet, SSH, or Serial console to the system and log in.
2. Enter the command: racadm vflashpartition create -i 1 -o drive1 -t empty -e HDD
-f fat16 -s 20
A 20 MB empty partition in FAT16 format is created. By default, an empty partition is created as read-
write.
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