If I use PartedUtil I see that its a 251 on line 1 which according to your post: VMware KB: Using the partedUtil command line utility on ESXi and ESX
is a DataStore. That gives me some hope.
/var/log # partedUtil get /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.600188b039df110019587854044a724c
109214 255 63 1754529792
1 2048 1754529791 251 0
The following is what I would like to execute please confirm this is ok :
fdisk -u /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.600188b039df110019587854044a724c
Create the partition:
Press n and press Enter to create a new partition.
Press p and press Enter to select that this is a primary partition.
Press 1 and press Enter to make the first partition.
Press 128 and Enter to align the partition to sector 128.
Press Enter again to retain the default value.
Change the partition to type fb (VMFS):
Press t and press Enter. Partition 1 is automatically selected.
Enter fb and press Enter.
Press w and press Enter to save.
Run vmkfstools -V and press Enter to discover the VMFS.
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What I still don't understand is what is going wrong here during the mount.
1. We have a live physical disk.
2. It shows formated and with a partition VMFS3.
3. It shows itself under Configuration/Storage Adapters ( the SCSI storage device ).
Why doesn't it detect the datastore. Does it think that we do not have the extents ? And therefore fails ?
And if so, is my action planned as per above likely to solve the problem.
Just trying to get the right approach here.