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Hello
I would appreciate if somebody could help me to solve the issue creating a vmfs3 file system on my new ESX test system.
I have created a white box system using the S5000PSLROMB motherboard, which is on the HCL.
The motherboard has the latest BIOS. I have 4 disks connected to the ROMB disk controller. The controller is based on the LSI1068 chip. I havent setup a RAID set, because I only have the ROMB card and I havent purchased the RAID activation key for the ROMB card.
According to my understanding of the HCL this is not necessary. There is a note in the HCL for systems marked with 1 Only the LSI hardware RAID configuration is supported. But none of the S5000PSLROMB based systems have the mark 1.
Installing ESX 3.0.1 was successful without an error message. When I logged on to the system after the first reboot I recognized that the vmfs3 file system was not mounted. I had created a partition on the first local disk and specified it should format it as vmfs3.
I tried to create a new vmfs3 on another disk connected to the ROMB card using the VI client. This was not successful and the error message is: Error during the configuration of the host: Unable to find file system for partition vmhba0:8:0:1
On the service console I verified with vmkload_mod l that the vmfs3 module is loaded.
I used fdisk to verify that a partition for the vmfs3 has been created on the first local disk during the ESX installation and on the other disk I selected using the VI client. The partition type is also correctly set to fb.
I tried to create the vmfs3 from the command line, but this was also not successful:
vmkfstools -C vmfs3 -S disk4 /vmfs/devices/disks/vmhba0\:8\:0\:0
Creating file system on "vmhba0:8:0:0" with blockSize 1048576 and volume label "disk4".
Usage: vmkfstools -C vmfs3 /vmfs/devices/disks/vmhbaW:X:Y:Z
Error: Operation not permitted
The vmkernel log file contains the following information:
Jan 18 08:51:03 pc3 vmkernel: 0:00:39:00.955 cpu5:1038)FS3: 130:
Jan 18 08:51:03 pc3 vmkernel: 0:00:39:01.003 cpu5:1038)SCSI: 8021: vmhba0:8:0:1 status = 2/0 0x5 0x20 0x0
Jan 18 08:51:03 pc3 vmkernel: 0:00:39:01.003 cpu5:1038)WARNING: SCSI: 7916: status Not supported, rstatus #c0de00 for vmhba0:8:0. residual R 999, CR 80, ER 3
Jan 18 08:51:03 pc3 vmkernel: 0:00:39:01.003 cpu5:1038)WARNING: FS3: 2484: reservation error: Not supported
Jan 18 08:51:03 pc3 vmkernel: 0:00:39:01.003 cpu5:1038)WARNING: FS3: 2919: Failed with bad001f
Thanks for your help