I have tried to play with ESXi 6.0 on multiple occasions but it seems that even the most basic steps to add a local disk as datastore is proving to be extremely problematic. To preface the problem, I have 2 Micron M550 1TB SSDs local to the host, and I had them previously partitioned and functioning without problems in ESXi 5.5. I have since tried to upgrade to 6.0, and to start fresh, I attempted to re-partition the disks. This step used to take about 30s-1m in 5.5 but in 6.0 it just completely hangs. I am seeing these errors in the vmkernel.log and looking them up online has yet to have yielded with any working solutions.
2015-08-06T01:58:10.281Z cpu6:35435 opID=4704a8fd)<3>ata1.00: bad CDB len=16, scsi_op=0x9e, max=12
2015-08-06T01:58:10.281Z cpu10:32805)NMP: nmp_ThrottleLogForDevice:3178: Cmd 0x9e (0x439dc06b0e00, 0) to dev "mpx.vmhba0:C0:T0:L0" on path "vmhba0:C0:T0:L0" Failed: H:0x0 D:0x2 P:0x0 Valid sense data: 0x5 0x20 0x0. Act:NONE
2015-08-06T01:58:10.286Z cpu6:35435 opID=4704a8fd)<3>ata1.00: bad CDB len=16, scsi_op=0x9e, max=12
2015-08-06T01:58:10.286Z cpu10:32805)NMP: nmp_ThrottleLogForDevice:3178: Cmd 0x9e (0x439dc06b0e00, 0) to dev "mpx.vmhba0:C0:T0:L0" on path "vmhba0:C0:T0:L0" Failed: H:0x0 D:0x2 P:0x0 Valid sense data: 0x5 0x20 0x0. Act:NONE
2015-08-06T01:58:10.290Z cpu6:35435 opID=4704a8fd)FSS: 5327: No FS driver claimed device 'mpx.vmhba0:C0:T0:L0': No filesystem on the device
2015-08-06T01:58:10.311Z cpu6:35435 opID=4704a8fd)FSS: 5327: No FS driver claimed device 't10.ATA_____Micron_M550_MTFDDAK1T0MAY_______________________14180DE80028:1': No filesystem on the device
2015-08-06T01:58:10.311Z cpu6:35435 opID=4704a8fd)FSS: 5327: No FS driver claimed device 'control': No filesystem on the device
2015-08-06T01:58:10.338Z cpu6:35435 opID=4704a8fd)VC: 3551: Device rescan time 26 msec (total number of devices 😎
2015-08-06T01:58:10.338Z cpu6:35435 opID=4704a8fd)VC: 3554: Filesystem probe time 90 msec (devices probed 7 of 😎
2015-08-06T01:58:10.338Z cpu6:35435 opID=4704a8fd)VC: 3556: Refresh open volume time 0 msec
2015-08-06T01:58:43.703Z cpu10:32805)NMP: nmp_ThrottleLogForDevice:3178: Cmd 0x1a (0x439dc0674f00, 0) to dev "mpx.vmhba0:C0:T0:L0" on path "vmhba0:C0:T0:L0" Failed: H:0x0 D:0x2 P:0x0 Valid sense data: 0x5 0x20 0x0. Act:NONE
2015-08-06T02:03:30.870Z cpu1:32796)NMP: nmp_ThrottleLogForDevice:3178: Cmd 0x1a (0x439dc06aa4c0, 0) to dev "mpx.vmhba0:C0:T0:L0" on path "vmhba0:C0:T0:L0" Failed: H:0x0 D:0x2 P:0x0 Valid sense data: 0x5 0x20 0x0. Act:NONE
My system is running on a SuperMicro X10DRL-I, E5 2620 V3, 32GB DDR4, Intel PRO/1000 VT, Intel X520-DA, IBM 5016. The disks are connected to the onboard Intel SATA ports.
