I'm having problems adding storage in an infrastructure we are setting up.
We've got one VIrtual Center Server (Client / Server version 2.5.0, build 119598), and two ESX 3.5 Update 2 (120512) servers. It's a fresh install, and the hardware of the two ESX Servers is identical.
Our storage configuration is thus: In each server there is a pair of disks for the OS, and then four disks in a RAID 5 array - these arrays are totally local to each server.
If I go to 'add storage' on one server, I'm able to see the RAID5 disk, and add it as a datastore, once done, I can't add the RAID5 disk in the other server as a datastore - the 'add storage wizard' simply displays an empty listing, even though I can see the drive showing up under SCSI targets on the 'Storage Adapters' section of the ESX host configuration tab!
Here's the really odd part - if I go back to the first server, and remove the datastore, I'm then able to go to the second server - and the drive then shows up in the add storage wizard - but once added as a datastore, the same problem described above (empty disk listing in wizard) occurs on the first server!
I must stress, that were talking about local disks and RAID arrays here - there's no SAN or other shared storage of any kind allocated to each server!
Any help would be greatly appreciated! (for clarity - I'd run a full scan and remediate on each host).
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Mark