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ESXi 5.5 and disks with existing partitions

I installed ESXi 5.5 on my test box and discovered to my surprise that, unlike in prior releases, ESXi did not automatically reformat all attached disks into datastores. Next, when I tried to create a datastore manually, I got a "Call "HostStorageSystem.ComputeDiskPartitionInfo" for object "storageSystem" on ESXi failed" error, which has me wondering - is this a new feature/change in behavior, or is it simply a bug in 5.5?

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repartition the drives with partedUtil if that is possible - then try to create new datastores

if that does not work - wipe the disks with a LinuxLiveCD first


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