ESXi 5.5 U2 on a DL360 G6

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Hardware: DL360 G6

RAID Controller: P410i w/512MB cache, No Battery

Drives: 4 SAS Drives (RAID Config Varies for testing)

CPU: 5530 Xeon

RAM: 48GB

So I am testing different RAID configurations and checking the performance.

I started with 2 drives in a mirror (~300GB), then 3 drives in in RAID 5 (~300Gb) and I get the attached error message.

"Parted util failed with message: Error: The primary GPT table states that the backup GPT is located beyond the end of disk.....etc"

Now, I continue to add the 4th disk for a RAID 5 (~900GB) test and it runs. Then I convert to a RAID 10 (~600GB) and I get the same error.

Looks like whenever the useable disk space is ~300GB or ~600GB it bombs out.

Each time I change the RAID type, I clear the configuration then create a new aggregate of disk then a new RAID set. So *theoretically* there should be no residual data on the LUN.

Strangely, when I was able to get it installed and a VM to test disk I/o via SQLIO I always got only between 15-16MB/s... That is not right!

Any ideas to fix this error?

Thanks

[phillankester · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Format the drive using any utility. (I just used a 2008R2 iso)

then try re-installing ESXi.