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You're probably the same guy from VMware communities ... But anyway:<br />
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There's probably some DELL partitions on those disks, I'm guessing it's local storage yes?<br />
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&nbsp;Search the log for errors on something like this: “HostDatastoreSystem.Query<wbr />VmfsDatast<wbr />ore- CreateOptions”
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You're probably the same guy from VMware communities ... But anyway:

There's probably some DELL partitions on those disks, I'm guessing it's local storage yes?

 Search the log for errors on something like this: “HostDatastoreSystem.QueryVmfsDatastore- CreateOptions”

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I am and tried to search for that, but got no results. I sent you the log in VM Comm. You need it again, here it is.<br />
<a href="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2013/06_w27/663359/viclient-7-0000.log" target="_blank" class="file-inline" title="6/30 log (151 KB)"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 512 512"><path d="M67.508 468.467c-58.005-58.013-58.016-151.92 0-209.943l225.011-225.04c44.643-44.645 117.279-44.645 161.92 0 44.743 44.749 44.753 117.186 0 161.944l-189.465 189.49c-31.41 31.413-82.518 31.412-113.926.001-31.479-31.482-31.49-82.453 0-113.944L311.51 110.491c4.687-4.687 12.286-4.687 16.972 0l16.967 16.971c4.685 4.686 4.685 12.283 0 16.969L184.983 304.917c-12.724 12.724-12.73 33.328 0 46.058 12.696 12.697 33.356 12.699 46.054-.001l189.465-189.489c25.987-25.989 25.994-68.06.001-94.056-25.931-25.934-68.119-25.932-94.049 0l-225.01 225.039c-39.249 39.252-39.258 102.795-.001 142.057 39.285 39.29 102.885 39.287 142.162-.028A739446.174 739446.174 0 0 1 439.497 238.49c4.686-4.687 12.282-4.684 16.969.004l16.967 16.971c4.685 4.686 4.689 12.279.004 16.965a755654.128 755654.128 0 0 0-195.881 195.996c-58.034 58.092-152.004 58.093-210.048.041z"/></svg>viclient-7-0000.log</a>
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I am and tried to search for that, but got no results. I sent you the log in VM Comm. You need it again, here it is.
viclient-7-0000.log [https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2013/06_w27/663359/viclient-7-0000.log]

viclient-7-0000.log

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No problem ... We'll continue on the communities to keep it easy ;-)
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No problem ... We'll continue on the communities to keep it easy ;-)

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Thanks so much for the help!!<br />
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Regards
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We have a new Dell T420, RAID5, out of the box, with ESXi 5.1 pre-installed, after installing the vSphere Client on my machine, connect and start to create storage, when it reaches Current Disk Format, it immediately disconnect the client. Sometimes I can reconnect, sometimes I have restart ESXi. I've changed IPs, as someone mentioned, IP conflict.<br />
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I have no CD or DVD drive, nor IDE ports to plug one up, just a SATA, which I don't have a SATA C/DVD drive to use. So, I trying to figure out how to fix or re-install ESXi.<br />
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Any ideas?
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We have a new Dell T420, RAID5, out of the box, with ESXi 5.1 pre-installed, after installing the vSphere Client on my machine, connect and start to create storage, when it reaches Current Disk Format, it immediately disconnect the client. Sometimes I can reconnect, sometimes I have restart ESXi. I've changed IPs, as someone mentioned, IP conflict.

I have no CD or DVD drive, nor IDE ports to plug one up, just a SATA, which I don't have a SATA C/DVD drive to use. So, I trying to figure out how to fix or re-install ESXi.

Any ideas?

VMware ESXi 5.1 disconnects from vSphere client during storage creation

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