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Are these disks you are adding to vSAN - virgin disks (e.g not used) , or used previously ?
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Are these disks you are adding to vSAN - virgin disks (e.g not used) , or used previously ?

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chilemoore

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Thanks! &nbsp;I will give it a try.
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Sorry for the late response. &nbsp;I was able to wipe and they worked.
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Sorry for the late response.  I was able to wipe and they worked.

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Hey Experts. &nbsp;Another vSphere related conundrum. &nbsp;Playing with vSAN. &nbsp;I added a new host to the cluster and proceeded to add more disks to the vSan. &nbsp; Of 8 drives (2 SSD and 4 SAS) two of them did not get added. &nbsp;When I check the drive details the partitions are missing. &nbsp;Via the CLI, if I try to format I get “GPT is located beyond the end of disk”. &nbsp; I have tried dropping and reading in vSphere as well as vCenter. &nbsp;I also deleted the virtual disks via the Dell pre-boot and added them back in with the same results. &nbsp;Any suggestions?
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Hey Experts.  Another vSphere related conundrum.  Playing with vSAN.  I added a new host to the cluster and proceeded to add more disks to the vSan.   Of 8 drives (2 SSD and 4 SAS) two of them did not get added.  When I check the drive details the partitions are missing.  Via the CLI, if I try to format I get “GPT is located beyond the end of disk”.   I have tried dropping and reading in vSphere as well as vCenter.  I also deleted the virtual disks via the Dell pre-boot and added them back in with the same results.  Any suggestions?

GPT is located beyond the end of disk

Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.

Virtualization

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.