I'm trying to create a datastore in vSphere 6.0 Client and receiving the message: The hard disk is blank. The system sees my RAID and identifies the correct capacity on it (21.83 TB), assigns a device under /vmfs/devices/disks/, and so on.
At first the exposed device had no partition and partedUtil threw some glibc errors when I tried using it over SSH on the ESXi host. I booted my system with a live Ubuntu USB and used parted there to add a gpt partition covering 100% of the RAID.
Booting back to ESXi, I still get the same results, even with the partition already in place. The 'Add Storage' window finds the device, identifies capacity, displays the /vmfs/device/disks/eui... location, and says The hard disk is blank.
Eventually it displays the following error, but I have not found any working solutions thus far.
Call "HostDatastoreSystem.QueryVmfsDatastoreCreateOptions" for object "ha-datastoresystem" on ESXi "192.168.1.191" failed.
This is my first time working with ESXi/vSphere. Where do I go from here?
After more searching, it seems this might be related/causing the issue: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=207907...
Is the 4k volume size still an issue in vSphere 6? If so, it seems the solution is to rebuild the RAID with 512-byte sectors.
After more searching, it seems this might be related/causing the issue: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=207907...
Is the 4k volume size still an issue in vSphere 6? If so, it seems the solution is to rebuild the RAID with 512-byte sectors.
It appears the 4k size was the issue. I rebuilt the RAID with 64-bit LBA as a RAID0 so I could test it right away. Worked just fine in vSphere Client. Time for a rebuild.