Hi, I'm trying to practice some VM stuff and have loaded ESXi 6.0 to a bootable USB drive. I boot the PC with the USB drive and it comes up with the ESXi screen/IP info for the server.
After that I connected to the server (my desktop) that's running the ESXi on the USB stick from my laptop. I then proceeded to load VSphere client and was attempting to create a datastore to load a linux VM onto. However, I ran into an issue when I got to this step. I believe I went into disk layout and was attempting to create a VMDK from my available partitions.
This is a picture of my diskmgmt.msc>
And here's some output I captured using diskpart>
DISKPART> list disk
Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ---
Disk 0 Online 460 GB 1024 KB
Disk 1 Online 1403 GB 701 GB
Disk 2 Online 596 GB 306 GB
Disk 3 Online 111 GB 0 B
Disk 4 Online 14 GB 11 GB *
DISKPART> list volume
Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
Volume 0 H DVD-ROM 0 B No Media
Volume 1 D GAMES NTFS Partition 459 GB Healthy
Volume 2 E RAIDAPPLICA NTFS Partition 701 GB Healthy
Volume 3 G BACKUPS NTFS Partition 117 GB Healthy
Volume 4 C NTFS Partition 111 GB Healthy System
Volume 5 Removable 4064 KB Healthy
I was attempting to use the 282 GB free on my backup partition to create a datastore on but I received an error like this when I tried to use that disk>
HostDatastoreSystem.QueryVmfsDatastoreCreateOptions" for object "ha-datastoresystem"
This was the "gist" of the error I received. I'm able to select my RAID0 Disk but I'm worried it might mess up my RAID 0 partition that I have my windows applications loaded on.
Disk 0 and 1 above are part of a RAID 0 partition I created a LONG time ago when I set this system up. I have over 700GB free on this RAID partition but I think Vsphere isn't correctly seeing this disk. It reports one of these as having no data!!! That's not correct and I"d rather make sure I'm correct before attempting to create any datastores.
Again, these are the drives that are on my main PC that has the ESXi loaded to USB. Sorry but I'm new to this and trying to piece it together without hosing up my system. I have a dual boot SUSE/WIN7 and I don't want to mess that up. I should probably just skip this since it's just for practice anyways.
Appreciate any suggestions.
Here's what the tool shows for available disk.
If I select the top disk this is what I get back
I'm not sure why it's showing 460GB Free space when I thought I had 701GB as shown by diskmgmt?? And it appears it wants to use the entire 471 GB. I only wanted to create a small 40 GB datastore or disk.
I was watching this video as an example.
And if I select the other 931 GB RAID 0 disk it shows it as all free!! This isn't right so I'm not sure what's going on?
