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ESXi vSphere Data Storage

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I just installed ESXi 4.1 on my laptop (i tried on my server, but network card is not compatible) so in the meantime (until tomorrow) i am testing the software in my laptop. ESXi installs fine and is accessible. When configuring the vSphere 4.1 client on remote workstation, the data storage does not appear. My question is: can i use the local hard drive (where ESXi is installed) as data storage as well? The hard drive nor external hard drives that i plug in to the laptop appear on the list of data storage. I have attempted to re-scan and refresh many times. I run the command via SSH "fdisk -l" and get nothing. Please advice.

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Yesterday i was able to see it. I even selected the data storage and it was working fine. But i was running the ESXi from a USB. Today i re-installed the ESXi on the local hard drive, and now i can't see the local hard drive anymore. Could it be a partition problem? I was thinking of killing the hard drive using kill disk and start from scratch...

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