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Resolved: Physical disk {} does not have the inquiry data (SCSI page 83h VPD descriptor) that is required by failover clustering -- With Server 2016.

Hi,

I received this Error/Failure during Cluster Validation.  I googled for a solution and was not able to find one so since I have resolved this I wanted to post the solution.

Physical disk {} does not have the inquiry data (SCSI page 83h VPD descriptor) that is required by failover clustering

1.  We have VMs that were created from Template.  (They may not have been Sys-Preped) which may cause us other issues down the road.

2.  One of the disks was a GPT disk.  (This was the GUID the Cluster Validation was complaining about.)

3.  This is Server 2016 running on VMware 6.5

I did the following to resolve the issue:

1.  Removed the GPT Disk.

2.  Added another disk.

Re-ran the cluster Validation and that resolved the issue.

Thanks,

Carl

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