Symptoms:
- Fail to upgrade ESXi 6.7 or later from ESXi 6.5 and the installer. You see an error similar to:
"AssertionError: naa.50014ee0aeb77df9: 0 datastores found on disk (maximum allowed is 1)"
naa.50014ee0aeb77df9 above is an example of disk name.
- The vmkernel log shows below snippets (for a few times):
2014-11-09T11:50:31.346Z cpu20:1000346525)ScsiHandle: SCSIOpenNamedDevice:754: handle=0x0x43042a98c200 (naa.50014ee0aeb77df9 part 3) is read-only
2014-11-09T11:50:31.346Z cpu20:1000346525)LVM: ValidateAndCheckSnapshot:11542: Device naa.50014ee0aeb77df9:3 detected to be a snapshot:
2014-11-09T11:50:31.346Z cpu20:1000346525)LVM: ValidateAndCheckSnapshot:11549: queried disk ID: <type 2, len 14, lun 0, devType 0, scsi 0, h(id) 8309539792451407079>
2014-11-09T11:50:31.346Z cpu20:1000346525)LVM: ValidateAndCheckSnapshot:11556: on-disk disk ID: <type 1, len 26, lun 0, devType 0, scsi 0, h(id) 15230433280985346524>
2014-11-09T11:50:31.346Z cpu20:1000346525)LVM: ValidateAndCheckSnapshot:11560: If your device was falsely detected as a snapshot, please file an ESX storage bug.
2014-11-09T11:50:31.346Z cpu20:1000346525)LVM: InitDeviceObj:5464: New device naa.50014ee0aeb77df9:3 initialized successfully
2014-11-09T11:50:31.346Z cpu20:1000346525)LVM: ActivateDevice:14847: Un-marking device <(naa.50014ee0aeb77df9:3, 3276407840), 5258320d-628c163e-687e-90e2ba3310e4> for deletion. dev OpenCount: 0 isSnapshot: True device state: 1
2014-11-09T11:50:31.346Z cpu20:1000346525)LVM: ProbeDeviceInt:10006: Probing LVM device naa.50014ee0aeb77df9:3 (devID: 5258320d-628c163e-687e-90e2ba3310e4) isSnapshot: T dev->isSnapshot: T newDev: F
Note: The preceding log excerpts are only examples. Date, time, and environmental variables may vary depending on your environment.