JVKeller's Posts

Hello, I had accidentally reset my ESXi host. (yeah. I know) I set the network and so on and after it was back online, I noticed that one of my 2 storage devices were offline. 1 NVMe SSD which is working fine, and one SATA SSD that is just showing up a datastore with 1 partition and 0 bytes free. Any attempt to edit this datastore or device come up with an error. I can't even delete it. After some digging I discovered that the SSD, Samsung Evo 870, shows a status of "FROZEN." Not only does the trick to power cycle the drive get it un-frozen, but It's also showing up as a RAID drive?! So, standard tools to see the partition information will not work. I can see the old partition info and the files with a raid reconstructor, and could probably recover them if I had more than the freeware, but that won't get it out of this frozen state.  Any one have some advice in dealing with getting this back to a useable state?   Thank you.

Thought I would post this separate since it should help someone.   Trying to run Windows 11 in ESXi will result in TPM2.0 detection failures. A requirement for TPM is to run a Hypervisor. My setup is tiny and I defiantly don't need an HV.   During installation, after you get the message that you can't install. Change this registry setting and it will get W11 insatlled: (link) Press Shift + F10 A DOS box appears. Typ regedit and hit enter Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup and create a new Key named LabConfig Create in the LabConfig Key a ByPassTPMCheck DWORD (32-bit) with the value of 1   After installation: https://github.com/AveYo/MediaCreationTool.bat Download the file, Skip_TPM_Check_on_Dynamic_Update.cmd, or open the link for the code copy and paste it into a new text document and save/rename the file with the extension of .cmd run it once to disable the check run it again if you want to undo it. Hope it helps!