Hi All,
I'm trying to add 16TB odd of disk space into ESXi 5.5 on a Dell R720. I can see the size and storage fine but it keeps either prompting me to use "Free space" which give me 224GB or when I select the other option I get an error message.
I've recreated the RAID 5 volume twice but can't get this working.
Any advice?
TIA
MK
Hi Mike,
Could you share the prompt message screenshot and the error message you mentioned?
If I choose "Free Space" it gives me 204.79GB.
If I choose "Use all available partitions" it errors with:
Call "HostStorageSystem.ComputeDiskPartitionInfo" for object "storageSystem" on ESXi "192.168.40.167" failed.
Thanks.
Hi
manually delete the partitions logged in as root to my ESXi box then try .
Thanks for your reply. I'm not sure I understand the answer here. The only way I can partition them, that I can see, is to use the RAID card BIOS or software?
Hi,
Look to this article:
You need to run the following command for each disk that you’re having issues with (this overwrites the partition table with a standard msdos one which VMware can work with);
NOTE: This will ERASE ALL DATA on the disk in question so be careful to select the right disks!
run thiw command: partedUtil mklabel /dev/disks/<disk id> msdos
To get a list of your disks;
/dev/disks # ls
Thanks Robert - why would I be getting "Access Denied" when running the /dev/disks command? I am logged in as Root.
TIA
MK