Missing MBR on ESXi 5

nry

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Setup:
Motherboard: Asus P8B-WS
OS Drive: 240GB OCZ Agility 3
Raid Controller: 3ware 9690SA-8i
HDDs: 6x Hitachi 3TB (in RAID10)

I have successfully installed the driver for the controller, and both the controller and disk show up in vSphere under Storage Adapters

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But for some reason dosent show up in /vmfs/devices/disks as 'vmhba1:C0:T0:L0' as shown in the above screen shots (But showing up as naa.600050e0ead61c00e77e000008a10000)
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In dmesg I get the following
Code:
2013-01-07T20:17:38.740Z cpu5:7840)Partition: 420: Missing prot MBR label for "naa.600050e0ead61c00e77e000008a10000"
2013-01-07T20:17:38.773Z cpu2:2050)ScsiDeviceIO: 2322: Cmd(0x41240078b3c0) 0x1a, CmdSN 0xc70 from world 0 to dev "naa.600050e0ead61c00e77e000008a10000" failed H:0x0 D:0x4 P:0x0 Possible sense data: 0x5 0x24 0x0.

If I try to add storage I get the following error
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Code:
Call "HostDatastoreSystem.QueryVmfsDatastoreCreateOptions" for object "datastoreSystem-28" on vCenter Server "vCentre" failed.

Assuming I need to create a MBR but not too sure if thats even possible in ESXi
How do I resolve this? Kind of hitting the limit of my knowledge here
 
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Worked it out!

Code:
partedUtil mklabel /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.600050e0ead61c00e77e000008a10000 gpt

Its been a long day!
 
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