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CrazyJim
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Fresh installation of ESXi 4 can't add ESXi 3.5 machines

I recently purchased a new machine and performed a fresh installation of ESXi4 (from ESXi 3.5). The installation worked great and am able to view everything correctly. When I go to add the 1TB storage drive (like I previously did in 3.5) it errors out stating "Cannot change the host configuration". This drive has all of my virtual machines and I seriously do not want to loose these machines. I tried mounting the drive using both "Keep the existing signature" and "Assign a new signature" and it fails out both times. Is there anything that I would need to change in order to get this drive mounted and able to access the VM's on there? Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!

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ianmellor
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Hi,

You can login to the ESX server directly with your vSphere client and add the storage.

Cheers,

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