# cd /vmfs/volumes/īelow you can see my datastores. This is where your datastores are located. VSphere Security documentation for more information. The ESXi Shell can be disabled by an administrative user. VMware offers supported, powerful system administration tools. The time and date of this login have been sent to the system logs. If you can’t connect you first have to enable SSH for ESXi. First connect to your ESXi server using SSH. We can’t really ‘convert’ the current thick disk to a thin disk but we’ll have to use the CLI to copy the thick disk to a new thin provisioned disk and then remove the old thick disk. This lesson will show you how to convert your thick provisioned disks to thin on a VMWare ESXi 5.x server.