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VmWare ESXi v5.5 - unable to allocate 2nd datastore on Cisco UCS 220 M4S
We recently purchased a Cisco UCS C220 M4S server to use as a VMware ESXi v5.5 host. We configured the RAID as follows:
Group 0: 2 drives RAID 1
Group 1: 4 drives RAID 5
Controller: Cisco 12G SAS Modular Raid
We installed VMware on Group 0, (lets call it datastore1). Problem now is when trying to create a second datastore (datastore2), we receive the following error:
An error occurred during host configuration, create vmfs datastore: Operation failed, diagnostics report. Unable to create filesystem, please see VMKernel log for more details. No such file or directory. Call "HostDatastoreSystem.Creat
I looked through the vmkernel log, but I'm not sure what I'm looking for.
I can provide more details upon request.
Thank you,
Group 0: 2 drives RAID 1
Group 1: 4 drives RAID 5
Controller: Cisco 12G SAS Modular Raid
We installed VMware on Group 0, (lets call it datastore1). Problem now is when trying to create a second datastore (datastore2), we receive the following error:
An error occurred during host configuration, create vmfs datastore: Operation failed, diagnostics report. Unable to create filesystem, please see VMKernel log for more details. No such file or directory. Call "HostDatastoreSystem.Creat
I looked through the vmkernel log, but I'm not sure what I'm looking for.
I can provide more details upon request.
Thank you,
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