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There’s always one! I had a single ESX host that refused to add a datastore?

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Failed to create VFMS Datastore {Name} – Cannot change the host con guration.

Solution
I already half suspected what the problem was, because I’d had a similar problem earlier on this week presenting
disks to a Windows VM, there’s a GPT partition table on the dive/array.

But without waiting an hour for the HP RAID software to security erase the drives, (and a reboot,) how would I do
the same with ESX?

First take note of the drive device name.

Enable SSH on your ESX host.

Connect with an SSH client, and list the device names with the following commands;

cd /dev/disks
ls

Copy the device name to the clipboard, and execute the following command;

partedUtil mklabel /dev/disks/{device-id

/dev/disks/{device-id}
} msdos
Then try to add the datastore again.

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