aaronearles
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Just loaded up VMWare ESXi 4.0 on a whitebox for some testing, the box has an NVidia MCP55 SATA Controller, which I believe is supported. I disabled RAID in the bios, and have 4 independent disks, 3x 160GB and a 1TB. After installing ESXi, the three 160GB drives are available as datastores, the 1TB is under devices but when trying to add storage, I choose that drive, click next, and get an error message
"esxi unable to create filesystem, please see vmkernel log" (I would check the vmkernel log, but I didn't think that esxi had a shell or ssh access to get to it?)
after that error, any following attempts to add the drive result in,
"esxi unable to read partition information from this disk"
until I boot up a live cd and wipe out the partition. Then I'm back to the first error again.
Anyone experience anything similar to this?
"esxi unable to create filesystem, please see vmkernel log" (I would check the vmkernel log, but I didn't think that esxi had a shell or ssh access to get to it?)
after that error, any following attempts to add the drive result in,
"esxi unable to read partition information from this disk"
until I boot up a live cd and wipe out the partition. Then I'm back to the first error again.
Anyone experience anything similar to this?