Cannot create a VMFS datastore on local disk
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Cannot create a VMFS datastore on local disk

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Article ID: 401022

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Products

VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

  • When trying to create a datastore, the following error is thrown

    An error occurred during host configuration.
    Operation failed, diagnostics report: Unable
    to create Filesystem, please see VMkernel
    log for more details: Failed to check device
    /dev/disks/xxxxx

 

Validation:

  • When looking at the /var/run/log/vmkernel.log, the following messages SCSI are seen:

    cpu47:2097306)ScsiDeviceIO: 3511: Cmd(0x45bf7ecfcc40) 0x28, CmdSN 0x1584 from world 0 to dev "t10.ATA_____Micron_5400_###########________________________############" failed H:0x0 D:0x2 P:0x0 Valid sense data: 0x4 0x44 0x0.


  • I/O error messages are reported in the /var/run/log/vmkernel.log:

    cpu71:2106089)WARNING: Partition: 1281: Partition table read from device t10.ATA_____Micron_5400_###########________________________########### failed: I/O error

Environment

VMware vSphere ESXi 7.0.x
VMware vSphere ESXi 8.0.x

Cause

SCSI code H:0x0 D:0x2 P:0x0 Valid sense data: 0x4 0x44 0x0 indicates a hardware error reported on the device:

D:0x2 => Storage Check Condition 
Valid sense data: 0x4 0x44 0x0 => hardware error, internal target failure

Resolution

Engage hardware vendor to investigate the disk further and possible PCI slot issues.

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