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ESX Add Storage Error

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koolaidkitten

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I'm getting this error when I try to add one of my drives to storage

"Call "HostDatastoreSystem.QueryVmfsDatastoreCreateOptions" for object "ha-datastoresystem" on ESX "192.168.8.1" failed."
This error appears on any of the 3 SATA controllers I plug it into. (Samsung 2TB HD204UI btw)
I have 3 other drive models just like this one and they got added without any problems, I also tried adding a different model drive and it got added just fine. The only thing that makes this drive a lil different form the rest is that it used to be part of a RAID-0 on a SIL3114 controller within Windows2003. It's sister drive got added just fine. This leads me to think that there is possibly some sort of remnant left over from the RAID pairing and it is giving ESX shit about it. I formatted the drive in Windows but it is giving me the same error. I also did some check disk and some data dumping to it to check for errors and it seems clean. Can anyone suggest something that does a 100% to the bone format? I'm thinking Windows is just not doing it all the way or something.
 
dd if=/dev/zero of=/vmfs/devices/disks/NAABLAH bs=1M count=1200

Should work after that. You'll have to find NAABLAH of the disk in question - I'll get that for you once I get in to the office.
 
lopoetve said:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/vmfs/devices/disks/NAABLAH bs=1M count=1200

Should work after that. You'll have to find NAABLAH of the disk in question - I'll get that for you once I get in to the office.
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Problem Solved
While playing around in the console with some FDISK commands it splurted out something like "FDISK Can't do GPT partition use GParted" So I googled Gparted, downloaded it and had it format the disk to one of the linux filesystems *ext4 i think* after that rebooted back to ESX and now the drive got added just fine.

Thank you anyway for your responce.
 
ah, yeah, that's one way to do it too :) partedUtil would have done it (included on esx) as well, but I was heading the same way (just a bigger hammer) ;)
 
Always wipe partitions on drives before connecting to and ESX box. Makes life a lot easier. I've been bitten by this crap so many times!
 
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