Hello,
Thanks for the reply. I am using ESXi 5.5.
I tried the second option. When I try to create a VMFS partition , I get the following error message :-
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An error occurred during host configuraion.
Call "HostDatastoreSystem.QueryVmfsDatastoreCreateOptions" for object "datastoreSystem-914" on vCenter Server "L4ALABVC01.aonnet.aon.net" failed.
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I see the following message in the vmkernel.log when it fails to create a VMFS5 partition out of the disk.
2015-10-27T22:45:47.289Z cpu1:33266)LinBlock: LinuxBlockCompleteCommand:860: This message has repeated 8320 times: Command 0x9e (0x412fc043dbc0) failed H:0x0 D:0x2
2015-10-27T22:45:51.315Z cpu1:32785)NMP: nmp_ThrottleLogForDevice:2321: Cmd 0x1a (0x412e8042bdc0, 0) to dev "mpx.vmhba2:C0:T0:L0" on path "vmhba2:C0:T0:L0" Failed: H:0x0 D:0x2 P:0x0 Valid sense data: 0x5 0x24 0x0. Act:NONE
2015-10-27T22:45:51.315Z cpu1:32785)ScsiDeviceIO: 2337: Cmd(0x412e8042bdc0) 0x1a, CmdSN 0x87b2 from world 0 to dev "mpx.vmhba2:C0:T0:L0" failed H:0x0 D:0x2 P:0x0 Valid sense data: 0x5 0x24 0x0.
Looking at the HEX code "H:0x0 D:0x2 P:0x0" , it looks like the device is not ready which is very strange because when I click "Add storage" on the host , I do see the two disks available there. Anyways , I will try to reboot my MSAs and the server . Will update. We may have some lead here.
Thanks,
-Dev