VMware Fix for Call “HostDatastoreSystem.QueryVmfsDatastoreCreateOptions” for object “ha-datastoresystem” on ESXi failed

Jun 26, 2016 | Linux, Server administration, Technology, Virtualization | 25 comments

While installing ESXI 6 update 2 on a Dell R410 I found that I could not create a datastore using the VSphere UI. assumed this was something to do with the Windows partition that was previously used on that disk so I decided I’d drop back into the CLI and delete the existing partition manually.

Here’s how you do this:

  1. Open VSphere.
  2. Go to Configuration
  3. Click Security templates on the left
  4. Click Properties
  5. Select SSH
  6. Click Options
  7. Click start
  8. Connect to your host using PuTTY or any other SSH client
  9. Move to the /dev/disks directory

    cd /dev/disks/

  10. List the files here

    ls

  11. Match the identifier with the datastore that you cant create in VSphere.
    For example: naa.6d4ae5208f875700172a910c5402c983
  12. Run partedUtil to delete that partition.

    partedUtil mklabel /dev/disks/naa.6d4ae5208f875700172a910c5402c983 msdos

  13. Go back into VSphere and create the datastore.
  14. Now disable the SSH service to clean up and close the security vulnerability that you’ve opened.

I hope that helps someone. It worked for me perfectly.

25 Comments

  1. Jarod

    Thank you so much for this. I was ready to pull my hair out with this error.

    Reply
  2. Jakub

    Thank you for sharing your experience!!! You save me lots of time 🙂

    Reply
  3. manolis manolidis

    thanks you are great.

    Reply
  4. Roman

    Thanks

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  5. PatrickOliveira

    Very good. Thank you very much!!

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  6. M to the K

    Cheers! Worked like a charm.

    Reply
  7. Gabriel

    thanks! you are the best

    Reply
  8. James

    Thank you!! This was just what I needed, quick and easy!

    Reply
  9. Samuel

    Thank you man! I thought is a disk error, and was near throwed it away, until i find your post! It worked very well. Thank you again!

    Reply
  10. Gotye

    How was the cane made? Who made it?

    Reply
  11. Andika

    Thank you so much for this lesson. It work for me perfectly 🙂

    Reply
  12. Michel G

    Very nice write up, saved me a lot of time figuring it out by myself. This happened to me when I reconfigured a raid set without removing the datastore from VMware before reconfiguring. Somehow the identifiers get left behind. This fixes that in 1 minute. Perfect.

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  13. Vital

    Worked for me too, thank you.

    Reply
  14. David

    With this fix I was able to add my 3.6TB array on my new (old) Dell server.
    Thank you very much!

    Reply
  15. Sean

    That fix it right up, Thanks!!!

    Reply
  16. Steve

    You tha MAN! Just put a new 500GB SSD in my primary host and suddenly couldn’t create datastores…this fixed it up. Thank you!!

    Reply
  17. martyn

    thanks dude

    Reply
  18. Bart

    Solution worked well TYVM digitaldarragh :0) for sharing this solution with us

    Reply
  19. Justin

    worked like a champ!

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  20. Pyromancer

    Thanks for this, tried to add a 10TB disk that had previously been part of a raid to an ESXi box and got this error, this fix cured it instantly. Much appreciated.

    Reply
  21. Øyvind

    Nice! Thanks

    Reply
  22. Kamil Toprak

    It worked for me . Thanks for your help

    Reply
  23. hamid

    Thanks you for sharing but unfortunately i have below error on command

    Error: Read-only file system during write on /dev/disks/naa.600508b1001cf93ad5dbf49f3d71e213
    WriteNewPtable: Unable to commit to device /dev/disks/naa.600508b1001cf93ad5dbf49f3d71e213

    Hamid.karimnejad@outlook.com

    Thanks

    Reply
  24. cip

    Thank you!

    Reply
  25. Rafael

    Thank you! =D

    Reply

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