Volume missing after multiple rebuilds

[Tibmeister]

I have never seen this, but after multiple rebuilds of different versions of ESXi, I get the same errors when trying to do an upgrade of the exact same two volumes missing, I mean the same GUIDs each and every time.  How is this possible, when I am wiping and re-installing from scratch can the same two VMFS volumes, having the same GUIDs, keep showing up.  Even the installer is complaining that these are missing.

/vmfs/volumes/613a363d-e3db5886-0356-000af70b1ad4
/vmfs/volumes/615c69b0-69f7f307-19c3-44a842011a4c

[Tibmeister]

So, after the nuclear option, you know, nuke it from orbit, it is the only way to be sure, things are looking "normal".  What I did is booted gParted and wiped all partitions on all disks, and created a partition with EXT4 on each disk and deleted, then repeated several times.  Now, there's no way those GUID partitions could exist, and so far, things are looking better.