Im running a ubuntu 16.04 machine in esxi enviroment, i am going through zfs on linux faq and it recommends to use /dev/disk/by-id for home servers due to inconsistent nature of /dev/sdX names but when i list files on /dev/disk the by-id only have cdrom device symlink on it.
root@sandbox1:/usr/lib# ls -l /dev/disk/*
/dev/disk/by-id:
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Mar 23 14:01 ata-VMware_Virtual_IDE_CDROM_Drive_10000000000000000001 -> ../../sr0
/dev/disk/by-label:
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Mar 23 14:01 ISOIMAGE -> ../../sr0
/dev/disk/by-partuuid:
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Mar 23 14:01 0ab37a34-0257-4619-b03e-d0d517ae81b0 -> ../../sda1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Mar 23 14:01 117b8f72-31ce-453c-96ad-1c3a6a7254ca -> ../../sda4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Mar 23 14:01 13901c1b-5f31-4ec8-82d4-a6f90867cb0c -> ../../sda9
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Mar 23 14:01 321d414b-3d47-4545-acc5-36e5ecf8d3b8 -> ../../sda2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Mar 23 14:01 6d13446d-9d6f-4ca3-825e-c505f244e73c -> ../../sda5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Mar 23 14:01 94e037c9-ee9e-40b2-b634-2382734e7fdc -> ../../sda3
/dev/disk/by-path:
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Mar 23 14:01 pci-0000:00:07.1-ata-2 -> ../../sr0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Mar 23 14:01 pci-0000:00:10.0-scsi-0:0:0:0 -> ../../sda
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Mar 23 14:01 pci-0000:00:10.0-scsi-0:0:0:0-part1 -> ../../sda1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Mar 23 14:01 pci-0000:00:10.0-scsi-0:0:0:0-part2 -> ../../sda2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Mar 23 14:01 pci-0000:00:10.0-scsi-0:0:0:0-part3 -> ../../sda3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Mar 23 14:01 pci-0000:00:10.0-scsi-0:0:0:0-part4 -> ../../sda4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Mar 23 14:01 pci-0000:00:10.0-scsi-0:0:0:0-part5 -> ../../sda5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Mar 23 14:01 pci-0000:00:10.0-scsi-0:0:0:0-part9 -> ../../sda9
/dev/disk/by-uuid:
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Mar 23 14:01 2017-06-18-10-12-11-00 -> ../../sr0
which method(by-id,by-path etc) is recommended approach on virtualized and non virtualized enviroments for creating zfs pools or any other files system where there is possiblity of change in /dev/sdX block device ?