Hello.
Im trying to create a new datastore for esxi 7 because I want to boot the physical installation of Windows 10 that I have on the Samsung EVO ssd disk,but it seems that a bug of the web interface of esxi 7 prevents me from doing it. I'm following this guide :
https://gist.github.com/Hengjie/1520114890bebe8f805d337af4b3a064
so this is what I did :
root@localhost:/dev/disks] vmkfstools -z /vmfs/devices/disks/t10.ATA_____Samsung_SSD_860_EVO_500GB_______________S3Z2NB0KB99028V_____ "/vmfs/volumes/evo.vmdk"
Failed to create virtual disk: Operation not permitted (65545).
I can't create any new folder inside the path /vmfs/volumes/. Maybe because it can be done only using the web browser ?
I have also tried to do :
[root@localhost:/dev/disks] vmkfstools -z t10.ATA_____Samsung_SSD_860_EVO_500GB_______________S3Z2NB0KB99028V_____ "/vmfs/volumes/disks/evo.vmdk"
Failed to create virtual disk: The specified device is not a valid physical disk device (20).
at some point,he points me to this comment,that should be the solution for the error :
bryanfritz commented on 11 Feb 2019
@kininwong Same thing happened to me. And i'm using ESXi 6.5
I found the issue with this was that you have to have a directory in an EXISTING Datastore. The file created is just the pointer to the RDM and needs to be located on an existing datastore. Open up ESXi and open up a esixting datastore, click on the file browser and create a folder in the datastore. Point your vmkfstools command to the directory you just created and the Pointer Files will be created there even though the RDM are not actually residing there.
I tried to do what he suggests,but when I click on the "Datastore browser" it shows a message which says :
Cause: Possibly unhandled rejection: {}
Version: 1.34.0 Build: 15603211
ESXi: 7.0.0 Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:76.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/76.0
Exception stack:
updateActionBar@https://192.168.1.6/ui/scripts/main.js:365:22317
loadDatastoreBrowser/<@https://192.168.1.6/ui/scripts/main.js:366:1514
k/<@https://192.168.1.6/ui/scripts/main.js:326:23176
$digest@https://192.168.1.6/ui/scripts/main.js:326:28780
$evalAsync/<@https://192.168.1.6/ui/scripts/main.js:326:30503
e@https://192.168.1.6/ui/scripts/main.js:325:10071
tg/h.defer/c<@https://192.168.1.6/ui/scripts/main.js:325:11522
We suggest to submit a bug report....
so,I can't open the file browser and I can't create a new folder in the datastore. I get this error using Chrome but also Firefox. is there a workaround for this ?