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Is this an out of the box ssd? It probably is not on the HCL but there are some ideas on how to fix it @ <a href="https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2108624-missing-datastore-after-upgrade-from-esxi-6-0-to-6-5" rel="ugc">https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2108624-missing-datastore-after-upgrade-from-esxi-6-0-to-6-5</a>
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CTO, SAS developer

Ben Conner

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It's just a standard Samsung SSD drive (4tb).<br />
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Hm. &nbsp;Following the instructions on that link, I get nothing back from running esxcfg-volume -l <br />
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I would think the other volumes would show up at least. This command with the -l option lists all volumes which have been detected as snapshot/replicas. &nbsp;?<br />
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--Ben
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I just emailed a VMWare consultant who has the same drive. &nbsp;His just worked w/o no issues. &nbsp;Anything I can try to troubleshoot this?<br />
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FWIW, I did have another issue with a different spinning drive 6? months ago that I hot-swapped. &nbsp;I had to power reset the host to get it cleared up. &nbsp;<br />
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If I can avoid that I'd like to. &nbsp;Otherwise it will have to wait until this weekend.<br />
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--Ben
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Oh crud. &nbsp;Saw that message and thought it was an error. &nbsp;No, I hadn't Andrew. &nbsp;It worked just fine when I added it. &nbsp;<br />
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Thanks. &nbsp;Sigh.<br />
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--Ben
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To be honest with you, I don't like some of vSphere latest messages!<br />
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It would be better if they stated <b>UNUSED/NOT FORMATTED</b> etc<br />
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But actually the word they are using CONSUMED can mean many things, basically - not in use, or not claimed, and it can be many reasons why, you also get the same message when the datastore is corrupt and not mounted!!!<br />
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Glad it's all working...<br />
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If you NEED it to be SEED as a SSD, if it's not you can trick ESXi into it, because only ENTERPRISE SSDs are really supported!
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Hi,<br />
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I added a local Samsung SSD drive to my vSphere ESXi 6.7.0 host and it recognized it but says it is 'not consumed'. &nbsp;Not sure what that means or how to resolve it. &nbsp;?<br />
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--Ben<br />
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Hi,

I added a local Samsung SSD drive to my vSphere ESXi 6.7.0 host and it recognized it but says it is 'not consumed'.  Not sure what that means or how to resolve it.  ?

--Ben



Local datastore not consumed in vSphere 6.7.0

vSphere

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.