missing hard drive

[glucot]

I just installed ESX 3.5 U3 on an HP ML350G5. The G5 has six 500 MB SATA drives configured as two 1 TB RAID 5 arrays. When I look at the storage configuration though the VC client, I only see one drive. What did I miss when I installed ESX?

[Chamon]

What do you see when you run vdf -l from the service console?

[glucot]

The system didn't like the -l option. But it did display some information. The output from the command is in the attached text file.

[depping]

please post the outcome of fdisk -l

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[ehinkle]

Have you tried to go through VC client and add storage to see if you see the volumes to create vmfs partitions on them?

[glucot]

The output from fdisk -l is attached. It looks like there aren't any partitions on the 2nd drive.

[glucot]

This is interesting. I actually have two servers with this problem. The one I referred to in my original post was delivered from HP with all of the drives installed. This did not fix that problem. However, I upgraded the 2nd server from four 250 GB drives to six 500 GB drives. This worked on the 2nd server.

[Chamon]

Can you post the output directly in the thread? I can't open the links. Did you do as suggested above? Running through the wizard to see if it will pick up the drive?

[glucot]

Here is the output from the vdf command: I was able to fix this server by running the wizard.

FIlesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on

/dev/cciss/c0d0p2 5036316 1390040 3390444 30% /

/dev/cciss/c0d0p2 101089 27093 68777 29% /boot

none 134284 0 134284 0% /dev/shm

/dev/cciss/c0d0p2 2008108 33912 1872188 2% /var/log

/vmfs/devices 976741415 0 976741415 0% /vmfs/devices

/vmfs/volumes/49e88635-23aaf11c-de59-001cc45d0c0e 968622080 578560 968043520 0% /vmfs/volumes/usaabm020lab:storage1

And here is the output from the fdisk command: I couldn't run the wizard on this server because I couldn't add storage.

Disk /dev/cciss/c0d0 1000.1 GB 1000148590592 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121594 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225289 bytes

Device Boot Start End Block ID System

/dev/cciss/c0dop1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux

/dev/cciss/c0dop2 14 650 5116702+ 83 Linux

/dev/cciss/c0dop3 651 121258 968783760 fb Unknown

/dev/cciss/c0dop4 121259 121594 2698920 f Win95 EXT'd (LBA)

/dev/cciss/c0dop5 121259 121327 554211 82 Linux Swap

/dev/cciss/c0dop6 121328 121581 2040223+ 83 Linux

/dev/cciss/c0dop7 121582 121594 104391 fc Unknown

Disk /dev/cciss/c0d1 1000.1 GB 1000148590592 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121594 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225289 bytes

Device Boot Start End Block ID System

[glucot]

Does anyone have an idea as to why the 2nd hard drive wasn't partitioned on this server by the ESX installer?

[glucot]

It turns out I needed to manually create a VMFS3 partition on the 2nd drive during installation.