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aciampoli
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Hypervisor installtion issues.

Hello trying to instal hypervisor 6.0 on a Dell R710

As per KB i updated BIOS to latest 6.4.0 and all firmware.

I keep getting this error:

This programs has encountered and error"

Error:

partedutil failed with message: Error: invalid partition table on /dev/disks/naa..... -- wrong signature 1800.

Unable to read partition for device

Thank you.

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CoolRam
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Before the installation  "Zero out " the LUN .

please follow  this KB VMware KB: Formatting a new LUN in ESXi 5.x fails with the error: No Implementation: Support for add...

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CoolRam
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Before the installation  "Zero out " the LUN .

please follow  this KB VMware KB: Formatting a new LUN in ESXi 5.x fails with the error: No Implementation: Support for add...

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CoolRam
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To zero out the Disk please run this command

dd if=/dev/zero of="/vmfs/devices/disks/DeviceName" bs=512 count=34 conv=notrunc

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aciampoli
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Thank you very much!

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DrWhy
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I ran into this same problem.  Deleting and re-creating the array and Logical drives on the HP controller wouldn't do the trick.  I ended up pulling out the disks, sticking them it into a windows machine, initializing them, creating a partition on them, deleting that partition and then putting them back into the server where I then once again created the array and logical drives.  That did the trick.

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Here is the full error message so others can find this thread easier.

This program has encountered an error:

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Error (see log for more info):

partedUtil failed with message: Unable to read partition table for

device /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.xxxxxxx

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The preceding information will assist the vmware support team with

your problem.  Please record this information before proceeding.

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Gennaro
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I had the same problem and I started the server with an ubuntu and I did the following:

dd if=/dev/zero of=“/dev/sda” bs=512 count=34 conv=notrunc

Because in my case the problem disk was sda.

The Zeroed was really fast, It took only 5 seconds.


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cbeckstrand
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Ran into this on a HP Proliant server today. The fix was to set the array to bootable in the HP array manager. Another reason we buy Dells. :smileyangry:

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