I'm trying to create a LOCAL datastore on a Hitachi 500GB HD wit vSphere 5.5. I keep getting the error:
A specified parameter was not correct Vim.Host.Disk.PartitionInfo.spec
Error Stack
Call "HostStorageSystem.ComputeDiskPartitionInfo" for object "storageSystem" on ESXi "192.168.x.x" failed.
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I'm followin the VMware KB: Troubleshooting the Add Storage Wizard error: Unable to read partition information from this disk
I have a problem when getting to the partedUtil section:
This is the drive (device) I want to use for the datastore:
sata.vmhba0-sata.0:0-t10.ATA_____Hitachi_HDP725050GLA360_______________________GEA530RE2VN8XA
UID: sata.vmhba0-sata.0:0-t10.ATA_____Hitachi_HDP725050GLA360_______________________GEA530RE2VN8XA
Runtime Name: vmhba0:C0:T0:L0
Device: t10.ATA_____Hitachi_HDP725050GLA360_______________________GEA530RE2VN8XA
Device Display Name: Local ATA Disk (t10.ATA_____Hitachi_HDP725050GLA360_______________________GEA530RE2VN8XA)
Adapter: vmhba0
Channel: 0
Target: 0
LUN: 0
Plugin: NMP
State: active
Transport: sata
Adapter Identifier: sata.vmhba0
Target Identifier: sata.0:0
Adapter Transport Details: Unavailable or path is unclaimed
Target Transport Details: Unavailable or path is unclaimed
Maximum IO Size: 33553920
This is the partedUtil command I'm trying to run:
partedUtil getptbl "/vmfs/devices/disks/t10.ATA_____Hitachi_HDP725050GLA360_______________________GEA530RE2VN8XA"
Nothing happend when I run the command.
I also tried fdisk
fdisk -l "vmfs/devices/disks/t10.ATA_____Hitachi_HDP725050GLA360_______________________GEA530RE2VN8XA"
Nothing happend when I run the command.
NTOE: This may be useful info from ls /vmfs/devices/disks command
mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0 vml.0000000000766d68626133323a303a30
mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0:1 vml.0000000000766d68626133323a303a30:1
mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0:5 vml.0000000000766d68626133323a303a30:5
mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0:6 vml.0000000000766d68626133323a303a30:6
mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0:7 vml.0000000000766d68626133323a303a30:7
mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0:8 vml.0000000000766d68626133323a303a30:8
t10.ATA_____Hitachi_HDP725050GLA360_______________________GEA530RE2VN8XA vml.0100000000202020202020474541353330524532564e385841486974616368
t10.ATA_____Hitachi_HDP725050GLA360_______________________GEA530RE2VN8XA:1 vml.0100000000202020202020474541353330524532564e385841486974616368:1
Please advise