Hello there!
I want to create a datastore on an external 500GB USB hard drive with the following guide: USB Devices as VMFS Datastore in vSphere ESXi 6.0 | Virten.net
It all worked fine until step nine where I have to create the vmfs partition. Instead of vmfs5 I used vmfs6 (but due to the error i tried 5 as well - didn't worked), but when I run the command I get the following message with an error:
[root@localhost:~] vmkfstools -C vmfs6 -S VOTMGTEXDS003 /dev/disks/t10.WDC_WD500
0BPKT2D60PK4T0__00000000A78200000000
create fs deviceName:'/dev/disks/t10.WDC_WD5000BPKT2D60PK4T0__00000000A78200000000', fsShortName:'vmfs6', fsName:'VOTMGTEXDS003'
deviceFullPath:/dev/disks/t10.WDC_WD5000BPKT2D60PK4T0__00000000A78200000000 deviceFile:t10.WDC_WD5000BPKT2D60PK4T0__00000000A78200000000
ATS on device /dev/disks/t10.WDC_WD5000BPKT2D60PK4T0__00000000A78200000000: not supported
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Checking if remote hosts are using this device as a valid file system. This may take a few seconds...
Creating vmfs6 file system on "t10.WDC_WD5000BPKT2D60PK4T0__00000000A78200000000" with blockSize 1048576, unmapGranularity 1048576, unmapPriority default and volume label "VOTMGTEXDS003".
Failed to create VMFS on device t10.WDC_WD5000BPKT2D60PK4T0__00000000A78200000000
/dev/disks/t10.WDC_WD5000BPKT2D60PK4T0__00000000A78200000000: Permission denied. (Have you set the partition type to 0xfb?)
Error: Permission denied
I was googling for a solution but I didn't found anything that worked for me.
Some (maybe useful) information:
When I log in onto the ESXi web client, I'm seeing the device with a VMFS partition with the device's size but I cannot create a datastore from it.
Greetings,
Sandro
