No Datastores Recognized in ESXI 5.5
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I'm currently running version ESXI 5.5.0, 2403361 on a new Dell PowerEdge R430. I have 2 mirrored SD cards in which the ESXI is installed on. I then have 4 physical disks which are of 600 GB capacity each setup with a RAID 5 on a Dell RAID PERC H330 mini (embedded) controller. I ran a full initialization in which is completed successfully. When i log into VSphere and try to setup a new virtual machine, it doesn't show anything to configure the datastore. The status of the RAID and disks are showing good in the Web interface.
In Vsphere:
I go to "Create New Virtual Machine"
Custom
Fill in the box for the server name
Under "Select a designation for the virtual machine files" it shows an empty box. I have cleared the Raid configuration and reconfigured it to always just getting this same result.
Not sure why its not finding any datastore or storage devices for me to install the virtual machines on.
Thank you for your help!
I'm currently running version ESXI 5.5.0, 2403361 on a new Dell PowerEdge R430. I have 2 mirrored SD cards in which the ESXI is installed on. I then have 4 physical disks which are of 600 GB capacity each setup with a RAID 5 on a Dell RAID PERC H330 mini (embedded) controller. I ran a full initialization in which is completed successfully. When i log into VSphere and try to setup a new virtual machine, it doesn't show anything to configure the datastore. The status of the RAID and disks are showing good in the Web interface.
In Vsphere:
I go to "Create New Virtual Machine"
Custom
Fill in the box for the server name
Under "Select a designation for the virtual machine files" it shows an empty box. I have cleared the Raid configuration and reconfigured it to always just getting this same result.
Not sure why its not finding any datastore or storage devices for me to install the virtual machines on.
Thank you for your help!
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Dell as of late on the servers we have ordered even though we order with no OS they still seem to load a small NTFS partition. We had this same issue about a year ago and spent half a day figuring out. Same version of esxi as you are using.
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Looks like i'm still getting the same result. I remember when i was installing the ESXI, the only hardware that showed up were the SD cards. It didn't recognize anything else. Is there a way to update the RAID card since ESXI is the only thing installed?
Ahhh This is why its not showing because its already partitioned for esxi. why don't you load the esxi host software on a internal USB drive and boot off of that. All our deployments are setup as that we have OS (esxi 5.5) installed on an internal usb which we make bootable in BIOS and then we leave array just for storage (datastores)
Can you see the storage controller ?
make sure you are using the OEM DELL ESXi version from Dell.
Is your server and storage controller on the HCL ?
make sure you are using the OEM DELL ESXi version from Dell.
Is your server and storage controller on the HCL ?
hi there
from ssh
esxcli storage core adapter list (give us the output if you like)
if you see the LSI controller listed it might be that one that is use "Native Esxi driver)
esxcli software vib list (Again you can give us the output if you like)
if that is the case on some of these images it is the LSI driver that is running the storage module
if you do want to use the Mega driver from Dell if it is listed it requires a reboot.
As you can see in my picture the lsi_mr3 has loaded the module.
so to use the Mega controller Driver from Dell you need to disable the Lsi:
Disable the "lsi_mr3" driver by executing the following command: esxcli system module set --enabled=false --module=lsi_mr3 (works like a charm)
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esxcli_Storage_core.jpg
from ssh
esxcli storage core adapter list (give us the output if you like)
if you see the LSI controller listed it might be that one that is use "Native Esxi driver)
esxcli software vib list (Again you can give us the output if you like)
if that is the case on some of these images it is the LSI driver that is running the storage module
if you do want to use the Mega driver from Dell if it is listed it requires a reboot.
As you can see in my picture the lsi_mr3 has loaded the module.
so to use the Mega controller Driver from Dell you need to disable the Lsi:
Disable the "lsi_mr3" driver by executing the following command: esxcli system module set --enabled=false --module=lsi_mr3 (works like a charm)
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esxcli_Storage_core.jpg
hi again
additonally you could
ssh:
Run the: esxcli storage core path list (give us the output).
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additonally you could
ssh:
Run the: esxcli storage core path list (give us the output).
Cooledit
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Ran Update 2 and installed the latest patches. I did reformat the RAID again and then installed patches which found the RAID controller and was able to then create a datastore in vSphere.
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