There are two methods to address this issue, remove all the individual partitions from the disk, or overwrite the standard partition table that the VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) can deal with. Part 5: HOW TO: Enable SSH Remote Access on a VMware vSphere Hypervisor 5.1 (ESXi 5.1).Login and connect to the VMware vSphere Host ESXi server which has access to the disks or LUN you are trying to create the new datastore on. Login remotely via SSH or at the console of the ESXi host server. I've seen the issue when using existing left over disks from previous installations of Windows, Linux or Solaris, even after destroying the contents using the vendor array utilities.ġ. The issue is simply the VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), does not understand the existing information on the hard disk or storage array LUN. This method can be used with any version of the VMware vSphere Hypervisor from 5.0 to 5.5. In this article we will show you HOW TO: Fix An error has occurred adding datastores to an ESXi 5.x host. Last week, whilst installing VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESXi 5.5 U2 I came across an issue, when trying to add a VMFS5 datastore to an ESXi 5.5 U2 server the following error message was displayed ".Ĭall "HostDatastoreSystem.Query VmfsDatast oreCreateO ptions" for object "datastoreSystem-xx" on vCenter Server "hostname" failed."Īnd the datastore failed to be created. It surprised me that this issue still exists with VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESXi 5.5 U2.Ĭreating a new VMFS datastore is covered in Step 4 - Conducting a simple task using the VMware vSphere Client of this Article - Part 2: HOW TO: Connect to the VMware vSphere Hypervisor 5.1 (ESXi 5.1) using the vSphere Client I feel this is a little more advanced, so I've not included it in the Basic VMware article series, as it does require some basic Linux skills and command line usage.
For consistency, I have used VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESXi 5.1 throughout this series. These articles are also applicable to VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESXi 5.0 and 5.5. If you would like to read my Basic VMware articles, they are listed at the end of the article for your convenience.ĭuring this series of articles VMware released VMware vSphere 5.5 and VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESXi 5.5. In my previous Experts Exchange Articles, most have featured Basic and Intermediate VMware and Virtualisation Topics.
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