Hi there,
I installed ESXi on an HP DL360 G5 in our lab today. I just have two 146GB drives running in RAID 0 in the unit to provide some testing space.
After installation, I found that no default datastores had been created. When I look at the Configuration tab in the vSphere client, I see nothing listed under Storage > Datastores (as expected). Under Storage > Devices, I see the hard drive with 4 primary partitions and 1 secondary (see below for break down):
Primary Partitions: Capacity
1. DOS 16-bit <32M 4.00MB
2. DOS 16-bit >=32M 4.00GB
3. VMFS 268.53GB
4. Extended 896.00MB
Secondary Partitions: Capacity
1. DOS 16-bit >=32M 250MB
I get confused because there is a large VMFS partition in which I should be able to create a datastore. Unfortunately, when I click "Add Storage", select "Disk/LUN", grab the local VMWare Disk and set a name, set maximum capacity and click Finish, it tells me:
"Error during the configuration of the host: Failed to update disk partition information."
Now I realize it may be trying to use the entire disk as the new datastore when it should only be using that one VMFS partition. But my question / problem is that I don't know how to get the datastore created.
I've installed ESXi on a single 160GB SATA hard drive and it creates a datastore automatically after installation without problem. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.
Please help.
Thanks!
Chris.