https://www.it-react.com/index.php/2020/04/26/how-to-add-a-usb-disk-as-vmfs-datastore-in-esxi-6-7/
List disks
ls /dev/disks/
b1=vml.01000000004e4141584b545244457870616e73
b2=vml.01000000004e4141584c4a4452457870616e73
b3=vml.01000000004e4141584d565644457870616e73
b4=vml.01000000004e4141584e303947457870616e73
vmid=$b2
label=b2
# write label
partedUtil mklabel /dev/disks/${vmid} gpt
# partedUtil getptbl /dev/disks/${vmid}
# compute final sector
endsec=$(eval expr $(partedUtil getptbl /dev/disks/${vmid} | tail -1 | awk '{print $1 " \\* " $2 " \\* " $3}') - 1)
# create partition
partedUtil setptbl /dev/disks/${vmid} gpt "1 2048 ${endsec} AA31E02A400F11DB9590000C2911D1B8 0"
# format vmfs6
vmkfstools -C vmfs6 -S ${label} /dev/disks/${vmid}:1