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I'm stuck with my ESXI deployment and I have no idea how to move forward with this. I have one of my server with Software Raid that used to be partitioned in Linux 6.2. 2 Sata drives partition in Raid 10 using Linux. Now I have ESXI 5.1 installed on a USB drive. When I tried to create the datastore from Vsphere client, it gave me this error.. 

Call "HostDatastoreSystem.QueryVmfsDatastoreCreateOptions" for object "ha-datastoresystem" on ESXi "192.168.1.65" failed.

For the live of me I couldn't figure out how to format or prepare the data so that I can have esxi recognize it and enable me to create the Data Store.

Here is my fdisk -l

fdisk –l

 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/disks/t10.ATA_____WDC_WD1001FALS2D00E8B0________________________WD2DWMATV8861653p1 * 1 26 204800 fd Linux raid autodetect Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary /dev/disks/t10.ATA_____WDC_WD1001FALS2D00E8B0________________________WD2DWMATV8861653p2 26 679 5242880 fd Linux raid autodetect Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary /dev/disks/t10.ATA_____WDC_WD1001FALS2D00E8B0________________________WD2DWMATV8861653p3 679 7206 52428800 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/disks/t10.ATA_____WDC_WD1001FALS2D00E8B0________________________WD2DWMATV8861653p4 7206 121602 918884352 5 Extended /dev/disks/t10.ATA_____WDC_WD1001FALS2D00E8B0________________________WD2DWMATV8861653p5 7206 11122 31457280 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/disks/t10.ATA_____WDC_WD1001FALS2D00E8B0________________________WD2DWMATV8861653p6 11123 121602 887424000 fd Linux raid autodetect

partedUtil showGuids

 Partition Type GUID vmfs AA31E02A400F11DB9590000C2911D1B8 vmkDiagnostic 9D27538040AD11DBBF97000C2911D1B8 vsan 381CFCCC728811E092EE000C2911D0B2 VMware Reserved 9198EFFC31C011DB8F78000C2911D1B8 Basic Data EBD0A0A2B9E5443387C068B6B72699C7 Linux Swap 0657FD6DA4AB43C484E50933C84B4F4F Linux Lvm E6D6D379F50744C2A23C238F2A3DF928 Linux Raid A19D880F05FC4D3BA006743F0F84911E Efi System C12A7328F81F11D2BA4B00A0C93EC93B Microsoft Reserved E3C9E3160B5C4DB8817DF92DF00215AE Unused Entry 00000000000000000000000000000000

esxcli storage core path list

usb.vmhba32-usb.0:0-mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0 UID: usb.vmhba32-usb.0:0-mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0 Runtime Name: vmhba32:C0:T0:L0 Device: mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0 Device Display Name: Local USB Direct-Access (mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0) Adapter: vmhba32 Channel: 0 Target: 0 LUN: 0 Plugin: NMP State: active Transport: usb Adapter Identifier: usb.vmhba32 Target Identifier: usb.0:0 Adapter Transport Details: Unavailable or path is unclaimed Target Transport Details: Unavailable or path is unclaimed Maximum IO Size: 122880 sata.vmhba34-sata.0:0-t10.ATA_____WDC_WD10EALX2D009BA0__________________________WD2DWCATR6576288 UID: sata.vmhba34-sata.0:0-t10.ATA_____WDC_WD10EALX2D009BA0__________________________WD2DWCATR6576288 Runtime Name: vmhba34:C0:T0:L0 Device: t10.ATA_____WDC_WD10EALX2D009BA0__________________________WD2DWCATR6576288 Device Display Name: Local ATA Disk (t10.ATA_____WDC_WD10EALX2D009BA0__________________________WD2DWCATR6576288) Adapter: vmhba34 Channel: 0 Target: 0 LUN: 0 Plugin: NMP State: active Transport: sata Adapter Identifier: sata.vmhba34 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 sata.vmhba1-sata.0:0-t10.ATA_____WDC_WD1001FALS2D00E8B0________________________WD2DWMATV8861653 UID: sata.vmhba1-sata.0:0-t10.ATA_____WDC_WD1001FALS2D00E8B0________________________WD2DWMATV8861653 Runtime Name: vmhba1:C0:T0:L0 Device: t10.ATA_____WDC_WD1001FALS2D00E8B0________________________WD2DWMATV8861653 Device Display Name: Local ATA Disk (t10.ATA_____WDC_WD1001FALS2D00E8B0________________________WD2DWMATV8861653) Adapter: vmhba1 Channel: 0 Target: 0 LUN: 0 Plugin: NMP State: active Transport: sata Adapter Identifier: sata.vmhba1 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

ls -alh /vmfs/devices/disks

drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 512 Sep 18 05:38 . drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 512 Sep 18 05:38 .. -rw------- 1 root root 1.9G Sep 18 05:38 mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0 -rw------- 1 root root 4.0M Sep 18 05:38 mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0:1 -rw------- 1 root root 250.0M Sep 18 05:38 mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0:5 -rw------- 1 root root 250.0M Sep 18 05:38 mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0:6 -rw------- 1 root root 110.0M Sep 18 05:38 mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0:7 -rw------- 1 root root 286.0M Sep 18 05:38 mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0:8 -rw------- 1 root root 931.5G Sep 18 05:38 t10.ATA_____WDC_WD1001FALS2D00E8B0________________________WD2DWMATV8861653 -rw------- 1 root root 200.0M Sep 18 05:38 t10.ATA_____WDC_WD1001FALS2D00E8B0________________________WD2DWMATV8861653:1 -rw------- 1 root root 5.0G Sep 18 05:38 t10.ATA_____WDC_WD1001FALS2D00E8B0________________________WD2DWMATV8861653:2 -rw------- 1 root root 50.0G Sep 18 05:38 t10.ATA_____WDC_WD1001FALS2D00E8B0________________________WD2DWMATV8861653:3 -rw------- 1 root root 876.3G Sep 18 05:38 t10.ATA_____WDC_WD1001FALS2D00E8B0________________________WD2DWMATV8861653:4 -rw------- 1 root root 30.0G Sep 18 05:38 t10.ATA_____WDC_WD1001FALS2D00E8B0________________________WD2DWMATV8861653:5 -rw------- 1 root root 846.3G Sep 18 05:38 t10.ATA_____WDC_WD1001FALS2D00E8B0________________________WD2DWMATV8861653:6 -rw------- 1 root root 931.5G Sep 18 05:38 t10.ATA_____WDC_WD10EALX2D009BA0__________________________WD2DWCATR6576288 -rw------- 1 root root 200.0M Sep 18 05:38 t10.ATA_____WDC_WD10EALX2D009BA0__________________________WD2DWCATR6576288:1 -rw------- 1 root root 5.0G Sep 18 05:38 t10.ATA_____WDC_WD10EALX2D009BA0__________________________WD2DWCATR6576288:2 -rw------- 1 root root 50.0G Sep 18 05:38 t10.ATA_____WDC_WD10EALX2D009BA0__________________________WD2DWCATR6576288:3 -rw------- 1 root root 876.3G Sep 18 05:38 t10.ATA_____WDC_WD10EALX2D009BA0__________________________WD2DWCATR6576288:4 -rw------- 1 root root 30.0G Sep 18 05:38 t10.ATA_____WDC_WD10EALX2D009BA0__________________________WD2DWCATR6576288:5 -rw------- 1 root root 846.3G Sep 18 05:38 t10.ATA_____WDC_WD10EALX2D009BA0__________________________WD2DWCATR6576288:6 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Sep 18 05:38 vml.0000000000766d68626133323a303a30 -> mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Sep 18 05:38 vml.0000000000766d68626133323a303a30:1 -> mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0:1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Sep 18 05:38 vml.0000000000766d68626133323a303a30:5 -> mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0:5 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Sep 18 05:38 vml.0000000000766d68626133323a303a30:6 -> mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0:6 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Sep 18 05:38 vml.0000000000766d68626133323a303a30:7 -> mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0:7 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Sep 18 05:38 vml.0000000000766d68626133323a303a30:8 -> mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0:8 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 74 Sep 18 05:38 vml.0100000000202020202057442d574341545236353736323838574443205744 -> t10.ATA_____WDC_WD10EALX2D009BA0__________________________WD2DWCATR6576288 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 76 Sep 18 05:38 vml.0100000000202020202057442d574341545236353736323838574443205744:1 -> t10.ATA_____WDC_WD10EALX2D009BA0__________________________WD2DWCATR6576288:1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 76 Sep 18 05:38 vml.0100000000202020202057442d574341545236353736323838574443205744:2 -> t10.ATA_____WDC_WD10EALX2D009BA0__________________________WD2DWCATR6576288:2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 76 Sep 18 05:38 vml.0100000000202020202057442d574341545236353736323838574443205744:3 -> t10.ATA_____WDC_WD10EALX2D009BA0__________________________WD2DWCATR6576288:3 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 76 Sep 18 05:38 vml.0100000000202020202057442d574341545236353736323838574443205744:4 -> t10.ATA_____WDC_WD10EALX2D009BA0__________________________WD2DWCATR6576288:4 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 76 Sep 18 05:38 vml.0100000000202020202057442d574341545236353736323838574443205744:5 -> t10.ATA_____WDC_WD10EALX2D009BA0__________________________WD2DWCATR6576288:5 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 76 Sep 18 05:38 vml.0100000000202020202057442d574341545236353736323838574443205744:6 -> t10.ATA_____WDC_WD10EALX2D009BA0__________________________WD2DWCATR6576288:6 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 74 Sep 18 05:38 vml.0100000000202020202057442d574d41545638383631363533574443205744 -> t10.ATA_____WDC_WD1001FALS2D00E8B0________________________WD2DWMATV8861653 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 76 Sep 18 05:38 vml.0100000000202020202057442d574d41545638383631363533574443205744:1 -> t10.ATA_____WDC_WD1001FALS2D00E8B0________________________WD2DWMATV8861653:1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 76 Sep 18 05:38 vml.0100000000202020202057442d574d41545638383631363533574443205744:2 -> t10.ATA_____WDC_WD1001FALS2D00E8B0________________________WD2DWMATV8861653:2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 76 Sep 18 05:38 vml.0100000000202020202057442d574d41545638383631363533574443205744:3 -> t10.ATA_____WDC_WD1001FALS2D00E8B0________________________WD2DWMATV8861653:3 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 76 Sep 18 05:38 vml.0100000000202020202057442d574d41545638383631363533574443205744:4 -> t10.ATA_____WDC_WD1001FALS2D00E8B0________________________WD2DWMATV8861653:4 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 76 Sep 18 05:38 vml.0100000000202020202057442d574d41545638383631363533574443205744:5 -> t10.ATA_____WDC_WD1001FALS2D00E8B0________________________WD2DWMATV8861653:5 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 76 Sep 18 05:38 vml.0100000000202020202057442d574d41545638383631363533574443205744:6 -> t10.ATA_____WDC_WD1001FALS2D00E8B0________________________WD2DWMATV8861653:6

Please help? I'm running out of hair to pull.... :-) Many thanks everyone.

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  • Thanks for correcting the format @Michael. Makes it easier to read now. My bad. :-( Commented Sep 7, 2013 at 5:08
  • Do you want to keep the original partitions and to resize them or do you intend to create VMFS filesystems over whole disk and to purge old data? Commented Sep 7, 2013 at 6:15
  • Thanks @dsumsky. The ESXI is installed on USB jump drive so all I wanted was to just delete everything in the hard drive and use available space for the DataStorage. Commented Sep 7, 2013 at 7:30
  • @LeDude You DO understand that you won't be able to have RAID in the configuration you're pursuing, right? Commented Sep 7, 2013 at 9:10

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List partitions with the command:

partedUtil getptbl "/vmfs/devices/disks/DeviceName"

Example output:

1 63 2249099 131 128 2 2249100 2474009 252 0 3 2474010 286487144 5 0 5 2474073 286487144 251 0 | | | | | | | | | \--- attribute | | | \------- type | | \----------------- ending sector | \------------------------- starting sector \--------------------------- partition number

Partition types:

Linux - 0x83 = 131 Linux SWAP - 0x82 = 130 Linux LVM - 0x8e = 142 Linux RAID - 0xfd = 253

Delete partition:

partedUtil delete "/vmfs/devices/disks/DeviceName" [partition number]
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  • Thanks @GioMac. Very nice details especially the example output. Very clear. The last part (delete partition) pretty much answer my question. I'll post the details once I have the chance. Commented Sep 7, 2013 at 7:28
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Create an msdos partition: 

partedUtil setptbl /vmfs/devices/disks/{id} msdos

See: http://www.vbrain.info/2014/04/23/cannot-format-harddisk-with-vmfs5-after-removing-it-from-raid-array/

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  • This worked perfectly for me with a drive from an Intel Matrix array when all other methods failed. Commented May 23, 2016 at 17:41
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I would recommend you to go through the VMware knowledge base article Manually creating a VMFS volume using vmkfstools -C as well as it describes required procedure in more detail (basically, what GioMac sent). In general, their knowledge base is very worth source of information and it helped me many times.

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  • Thanks @dsumsky. I've read all the Vmware documentation before and they can be pretty confusing thus I went to the youtube route to see how it's being done. Commented Sep 7, 2013 at 18:36
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All.

Here’s the step by step on how I did it. The thing we can do with youtube nowadays ey? Thought I posted here just to share with everyone who may have to face this problem since I can't seem to find the answer when I Google it myself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDjzI3OOdOw

ls /dev/disks

mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0 mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0:1 mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0:5 mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0:6 mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0:7 mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0:8 t10.ATA_____WDC_WD1001FALS2D00E8B0________________________WD2DWMATV8861653 t10.ATA_____WDC_WD1001FALS2D00E8B0________________________WD2DWMATV8861653:1 t10.ATA_____WDC_WD1001FALS2D00E8B0________________________WD2DWMATV8861653:2 t10.ATA_____WDC_WD1001FALS2D00E8B0________________________WD2DWMATV8861653:3 t10.ATA_____WDC_WD1001FALS2D00E8B0________________________WD2DWMATV8861653:4 t10.ATA_____WDC_WD1001FALS2D00E8B0________________________WD2DWMATV8861653:5 t10.ATA_____WDC_WD1001FALS2D00E8B0________________________WD2DWMATV8861653:6 t10.ATA_____WDC_WD10EALX2D009BA0__________________________WD2DWCATR6576288 t10.ATA_____WDC_WD10EALX2D009BA0__________________________WD2DWCATR6576288:1 t10.ATA_____WDC_WD10EALX2D009BA0__________________________WD2DWCATR6576288:2 t10.ATA_____WDC_WD10EALX2D009BA0__________________________WD2DWCATR6576288:3 t10.ATA_____WDC_WD10EALX2D009BA0__________________________WD2DWCATR6576288:4 t10.ATA_____WDC_WD10EALX2D009BA0__________________________WD2DWCATR6576288:5 t10.ATA_____WDC_WD10EALX2D009BA0__________________________WD2DWCATR6576288:6 vml.0000000000766d68626133323a303a30 vml.0000000000766d68626133323a303a30:1 vml.0000000000766d68626133323a303a30:5 vml.0000000000766d68626133323a303a30:6 vml.0000000000766d68626133323a303a30:7 vml.0000000000766d68626133323a303a30:8 vml.0100000000202020202057442d574341545236353736323838574443205744 vml.0100000000202020202057442d574341545236353736323838574443205744:1 vml.0100000000202020202057442d574341545236353736323838574443205744:2 vml.0100000000202020202057442d574341545236353736323838574443205744:3 vml.0100000000202020202057442d574341545236353736323838574443205744:4 vml.0100000000202020202057442d574341545236353736323838574443205744:5 vml.0100000000202020202057442d574341545236353736323838574443205744:6 vml.0100000000202020202057442d574d41545638383631363533574443205744 vml.0100000000202020202057442d574d41545638383631363533574443205744:1 vml.0100000000202020202057442d574d41545638383631363533574443205744:2 vml.0100000000202020202057442d574d41545638383631363533574443205744:3 vml.0100000000202020202057442d574d41545638383631363533574443205744:4 vml.0100000000202020202057442d574d41545638383631363533574443205744:5 vml.0100000000202020202057442d574d41545638383631363533574443205744:6

First Drive.

t10.ATA_____WDC_WD1001FALS2D00E8B0________________________WD2DWMATV8861653 t10.ATA_____WDC_WD1001FALS2D00E8B0________________________WD2DWMATV8861653:1 t10.ATA_____WDC_WD1001FALS2D00E8B0________________________WD2DWMATV8861653:2 t10.ATA_____WDC_WD1001FALS2D00E8B0________________________WD2DWMATV8861653:3 t10.ATA_____WDC_WD1001FALS2D00E8B0________________________WD2DWMATV8861653:4 t10.ATA_____WDC_WD1001FALS2D00E8B0________________________WD2DWMATV8861653:5 t10.ATA_____WDC_WD1001FALS2D00E8B0________________________WD2DWMATV8861653:6 partedUtil delete /dev/disks/t10.ATA_____WDC_WD1001FALS2D00E8B0________________________WD2DWMATV8861653 1 partedUtil delete /dev/disks/t10.ATA_____WDC_WD1001FALS2D00E8B0________________________WD2DWMATV8861653 2 partedUtil delete /dev/disks/t10.ATA_____WDC_WD1001FALS2D00E8B0________________________WD2DWMATV8861653 3 partedUtil delete /dev/disks/t10.ATA_____WDC_WD1001FALS2D00E8B0________________________WD2DWMATV8861653 4

For some reason can’t delete 5 and 6 but it disappeared after the 4th anyway.

Second Drive.

t10.ATA_____WDC_WD10EALX2D009BA0__________________________WD2DWCATR6576288 t10.ATA_____WDC_WD10EALX2D009BA0__________________________WD2DWCATR6576288:1 t10.ATA_____WDC_WD10EALX2D009BA0__________________________WD2DWCATR6576288:2 t10.ATA_____WDC_WD10EALX2D009BA0__________________________WD2DWCATR6576288:3 t10.ATA_____WDC_WD10EALX2D009BA0__________________________WD2DWCATR6576288:4 t10.ATA_____WDC_WD10EALX2D009BA0__________________________WD2DWCATR6576288:5 t10.ATA_____WDC_WD10EALX2D009BA0__________________________WD2DWCATR6576288:6 partedUtil delete /dev/disks/t10.ATA_____WDC_WD10EALX2D009BA0__________________________WD2DWCATR6576288 1 partedUtil delete /dev/disks/t10.ATA_____WDC_WD10EALX2D009BA0__________________________WD2DWCATR6576288 2 partedUtil delete /dev/disks/t10.ATA_____WDC_WD10EALX2D009BA0__________________________WD2DWCATR6576288 3 partedUtil delete /dev/disks/t10.ATA_____WDC_WD10EALX2D009BA0__________________________WD2DWCATR6576288 4
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