Re: How to create a partition for the hard drive of a new VM?

I'm afraid that PowerCLI doesn't contain any cmdlets to create partitions.

But PowerShell does contain some cmdlets to create partitions, see for example A Woops–Creating Partition and Format disk using PowerShell does not update the $ share, a post from the Deployment Bunny.

But you will need to have an environment that has PowerShell and that can access the vDisk.

Should be easy, set up a VM and install an OS on there with PowerShell.

Then attach the new vDisk to this VM and do the partitioning and formatting.

Would that be a possible solution ?