What's this partition ?

[demz]

Hi all,

I already spoke about this problem in another thread, but didn't received any suggestion...

On two freshly installed ESX, with no LUN visible, esxcfg-rescan tells me

On scsi0, removing: 2:0.

On scsi0, adding: 2:0.

When I do an esxcfg-vmhbadevs, I got

vmhba0:0:0 /dev/cciss/c0d0

vmhba1:2:0 /dev/sda

I do a fdisk -l and see :

Disk /dev/sda: 1 MB, 1966080 bytes

1 heads, 4 sectors/track, 960 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 4 * 512 = 2048 bytes

Disk /dev/sda doesn't contain a valid partition table

What's this 1MB /dev/sda which doesn't contain a valid partition table ???

I have this partition on my two ESX boxes !

Any idea ?

[kastlr]

Hi,

what did you get when you perform a esxcfg-mpath -q --lun=vmhba1:2:0[/b]

Hope this helps a bit.

Greetings from Germany.

[Texiwill]

Hello,

If you are connected to a SAN that could be your controlling LUN. I would find out what SAN/NAS is presenting to your ESX servers.

Best regards,

Edward L. Haletky

VMware Communities User Moderator

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