Local datastore not consumed in vSphere 6.7.0
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
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
David Johnson, CD
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 @ https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2108624-missing-datastore-after-upgrade-from-esxi-6-0-to-6-5
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It's just a standard Samsung SSD drive (4tb).
Hm. Following the instructions on that link, I get nothing back from running esxcfg-volume -l
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. ?
--Ben
Hm. Following the instructions on that link, I get nothing back from running esxcfg-volume -l
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. ?
--Ben
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I just emailed a VMWare consultant who has the same drive. His just worked w/o no issues. Anything I can try to troubleshoot this?
FWIW, I did have another issue with a different spinning drive 6? months ago that I hot-swapped. I had to power reset the host to get it cleared up.
If I can avoid that I'd like to. Otherwise it will have to wait until this weekend.
--Ben
FWIW, I did have another issue with a different spinning drive 6? months ago that I hot-swapped. I had to power reset the host to get it cleared up.
If I can avoid that I'd like to. Otherwise it will have to wait until this weekend.
--Ben
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Oh crud. Saw that message and thought it was an error. No, I hadn't Andrew. It worked just fine when I added it.
Thanks. Sigh.
--Ben
Thanks. Sigh.
--Ben
To be honest with you, I don't like some of vSphere latest messages!
It would be better if they stated UNUSED/NOT FORMATTED etc
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!!!
Glad it's all working...
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!
It would be better if they stated UNUSED/NOT FORMATTED etc
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!!!
Glad it's all working...
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!