Disk Size Error & Failed Installation ESXi 6.5

[roberto2lini]

Hi Guys,

So I have been experimenting with a fresh install of ESXi 6.5 on my server. I am getting a few weird errors. I have included some screenshots as well. The first error is the significantly larger than actual disk size. I am using a 32GB USB Flash Drive and it's showing a disk size of 5439486.00 TiB. Once I continue the installation, ignoring the disk size error my installation fails. I have tried two different USB Sticks, different USB Ports, different ISO Images (Fresh Downloads), different bootable USB makers (Windows, Mac) and to make sure it wasn't my hardware I tried the same with ESXi 6.0 and I had no issues.

Can someone tell me more about these errors? Or can someone even resolve them?

Thanks for your time!

Roberto

[songtaoz]

Roberto,

Thanks for the question.

This issue should be reason by the return of an invalid capacity size from the quirky USB device.

Please help to switch to the shell:

- run 'lsusb' to show the device's VID/PID for more information for me to double check

Thanks,

Songtao

[roberto2lini]

Thanks for your time Songtao!

So after your comment I tried another USB and that isnt even showing up.... maybe I have a bunch of bad usbs...

USB that shows up but shows incorrect size.

USB that shows up in the CLI but doesnt show up when scanning in the UI.

[joshphp]

Same issue here with 3 different USB drives, all used in 5.5 and 6.0 deployments, even used diskpart to clean and wipe all partitions prior. Any ideas?

[Andrew_M_CA]

I am also having this problem with a couple of completely different USB Sticks I've tried.