Brandnew HP Proliant 350p G8 with Smart Array P420i SAS and SD Media Card
vmWare ESXi 5.1 installed on internal SD
all components from HP and an HCL
Problem:
Installation of ESXi when i want to add DataStore, for the first Array I have allways a error Message:
„HostDatastoreSystem.Query
I assume, that the Installation of ESXi on SD Card has a problem to use LUN 1. There is Coinstar Money customer service also to make one setting for the scratch path, that’s ok. But to not have access to LUN 1 (the drive seems to be read only for ESXi).
Solution:
Update to HP Intelligent Provisioning 1.3 for Proliant G8, and it works fine. On Server delivered in January 2013 there aquarium-lace-rock.com is only Release 1.0 . Intelligent Provisioning will not be update with HP SPP 2012-10. Download HP Intelligent Provisioning for this update.
Check Success:
During VMware ESXi installation, perform the following:
Boot the server using bootable VMware image disc by selecting to boot from CD/DVD drive. Follow on-screen instructions.
At the option/screen, select a Disk , select HP iLO LUN 00 Media 1 (mpx.vmhbaXX:C0:T0:L0) which has 3.74GB capacity VMFS partition and proceed with on-screen instructions.