Permission Denied while Creating a VMFS drive

[Thoranai]

Hi there,

Please pardon me if this is a repost.

I am trying to create a VMFS Drive. Here are the things that I have tried:

I am getting an error while creating a VMFS Drive ( 2x 2TB Drives ). I did create an VMFS Drive on a 500 GB drive. The ESXI Server is running on an USB (2GB).

Screenshot 1 shows the drives ( I was able to create a partition ) through the commandline (Did this after I tried to create it through the GUI.

Anyways the error i'm getting while creating the VMFS Datastore through the GUI is:

Call "HostDatastoreSystem.QueryVmfsDatastoreCreateOptions" for object "ha-datastoresystem" on ESXi "192.168.0.2" failed.

(Screenshot 2)

When I try to create it through the command line, it says:

Permission Denied.

(Screenshot 3)

After that I did some research about this error and found this thread:

I found a thread: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/288514

In that thread the person said to use the following commands:

ls /vmfs/devices/disks

The vm1 should be visible in the disk. I searched in the disks and did found the following:

/vmfs/devices/disks/vml.0100000000533248374a39464232303130363120202020202053414d53554e:1

After that I did ls /vmfs/devices/disks/ls /vmfs/devices/disks/vml.0100000000533248374a39464232303130363120202020202053414d53554e:1.

The system gave me back the item.(Screenshot 4)

I retried to use the following command:

vmkfstools -C vmfs3 /vmfs/devices/disks/ls /vmfs/devices/disks/vml.0100000000533248374a39464232303130363120202020202053414d53554e:1

The output of that is in screenshot 5.

Atleast it keeps saying Permission Denied. Could anyone help me with this? What am I doing wrong? Did I forgot something?

Screenshot FDisk -L (Second Post)

I'm running ESXI Server 4.1. I

Thanks for ur time and I'd hope someone can help me.

Thanks,

Thoranai

[Thoranai]

FDisk -L Screenshot.

I created another partition on the other hard disk ( the other 2 TB Drive ).

I retried using the following command:

vmkfstools -C vmfs3 -b 1m -S TEST /vmfs/devices/disks/vml.0100000000533248374a39464232303130363120202020202053414d53554e:1

But it failed. And I used this command to get the names of the vm's.

esxcfg-scsidevs -l

Screenshots

Thanks for ur time.

[DSTAVERT · Accepted solution]

ESXi has a LUN limit of 2TB -512 bytes. Your problem may be related. You can try making smaller virtual LUNs / Disks using the array tools in your RAID controller.

[Thoranai]

Hi,

Thanks . Didnt knew this. Was stuck on this for hours xd. Anyways, i need to search some raid tools. Do you know if esxi had built in tools to do this?

Stupid of me to not see the 512 bytes. I only saw the 2tb and kinda ignored the 512 bytes:p

Anyways thank you very much.

[DSTAVERT]

ESX(i) do not include any RAID tools. That would be something that is part of the RAID controller. What RAID controller do you have and I will see if I can help? My suggestion to break up the array is only to make sure that the issue isn't related to the 2TB - 512 byte limit. There can still be another issue.

[Thoranai]

Hey,

Sorry for the late response. Was working and went to bed. Anyways, the specifications:

- Asus P8H67-M EVO motherboard

- Intel® H67(B3) chipset :

2 x SATA 6Gb/s port(s), gray

4 x SATA 3Gb/s port(s), blue

Support Raid 0, 1, 5, 10

Marvell 88SE6111 controller :

1 x UltraDMA 133/100/66 for up to 2 PATA devices , navy blue

1 x Power eSATA 3Gb/s port(s), green

Thanks for ur time,

Thoranai