grantph
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On closer inspection it appears that ESXi 6.5U1 is NOT reading partitions properly. Below, I've dumped the partitions via UI and esxcli. The UI shows the partition as <blank> AND the diagram as being correct - bizarre. There's something SERIOUSLY WRONG with this update. esxcli shows the same partition tables on both builds, and the volume continues to work correctly on the '538 build.

Here's the output on both builds of ESXi 6.5 ...

ON BUILD 5969303 HOST

Web UI

FreeNAS iSCSI Disk (naa.6589cfc000000bcff79a34187f94af3a)

Type: Disk

Model: iSCSI Disk

Path: /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6589cfc000000bcff79a34187f94af3a

Capacity: 400 GB

Partition Format: gpt

UUID: 010003000030303063323961373930363631360000695343534920

Partitions

<blank>

Partition diagram

1. VMFS (400 GB)

esxcli storage core device partition list

naa.6589cfc000000bcff79a34187f94af3a 0             0   838860800     0   429496729600

naa.6589cfc000000bcff79a34187f94af3a 1           128   838860767    fb   429496647168

ON BUILD 5310538 HOST

Web UI

Type: Disk

Model: iSCSI Disk

Path: /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6589cfc000000bcff79a34187f94af3a

Capacity: 400 GB

Partition Format: gpt

UUID: 010003000030303063323961373930363631360000695343534920

Partitions

1: VMFS

Type VMFS

Start block 0

End block 409599

Block size 1 MB

Size 400 GB (409599 blocks)

Partition diagram

1. VMFS (400 GB)

esxcli storage core device partition list

naa.6589cfc000000bcff79a34187f94af3a 0             0   838860800     0   429496729600

naa.6589cfc000000bcff79a34187f94af3a 1           128   838860767    fb   429496647168