Hi!
I have a brand new installation of ESXi 4. When I try to use vSphere to add a datastore, I get the following error:
"Error during the configuration of the host: Unable to Find Head Extent Device Path"
I'm trying to create a new datastore using a RAID 10 virtual disk on a dell PERC 5/i controller. The raid container is 1.8TB so it's within the 2TB limit.
I've tried searching all over, but not even Google searches turn up anything. Help!
Can you see your disk under storage adapters and with fdisk -l command?
Andre
Yes, I can see them
The error occurs when the platform cannot find the partition you are specifying on the host you're trying to create the datastore on.
*) Verify the disk shows up esxcfg-scsidevs -l and /vmfs/devices/disks
*) do a storage rescan either with the UI or with esxcfg-rescan <vmhbaX>
Thanks for your help / pointers - I fixed the problem.
For reference:
1.) fdisk -l produced ouput saying invalid partition table, so I used fdisk to attempt to correct the issue
2.) Anything partition changes I was writing to the disk didn't commit & the invalid partition stuff was still there.
3.) Disabled "Intel VT-d" in the BIOS and everything is working.
Intel VT-d is supposed to be Intel Directed I/O Virtualization - not sure why enabling it causes disk I/O issues on an external controller, but probably something to do with the PCI-e bus.
Hardware: Dell PERC 5/i with LSI Firmware 7.0.1-0066, ASUS Z8NA-D6C Motherboard w/ 0406 BIOS
Did you try to get the onboard SATA drives working with ESX? Just curious. I just purchased this motherboard and was going to install ESX4 to a USB stick.
Thanks.
At least it's not just me. I have the same board and same controller. I did the install with VT-d turned off. I wanted to play with PCI passthrough and had trouble so I turned VT-d on. Now, ESXi 4 wouldnt boot. Most of the time it would hang loading the VT-d module. Other times it would get further but still not finish the boot.
Yes I did, but you cannot use the onboard RAID becuase its a fake raid controller (software enabled, windows only).
Drives plugged in to onboard will show up as individual disks.
Solution :- I manage to fix this issue after changing the permission on storage Level .. It was set to read only and i hv change it to Read / Write and it worked!!
Regards
Sahil