
I am trying to go back through the list of commands I have tried to get more information, and at one point received a "fsUUID is null" response when trying to query the naa identifier. Local USB Direct-Access (mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0) Output from esxcfg-scsidevs -c - Device UID

Output from esxcli storage filesystem list - Mount Point To try and resolve the issue, I installed ESXi 6.0 U1 on a fresh USB stick that is now happily running in the Microserver, but exhibiting the same behavior regarding the Datastore. This datastore was running on an ESXi 5.1 install (HP customized ISO) for a couple of years w/out issue. I have refreshed and rebooted multiple times w/ no success. However, the datastore does not show up in the Datastores tab. Identifier is naa.600508b1001c8d82bf5f4a33f0e2bc04 One of my work colleagues Mat Smith pointed out that when you install the generic ESXi hypervisor from the VMware site you get basic HP or Dell hardware information which is OK, but if you only have local storage you don’t know what state the underlying RAID configuration is in unless you have access to iLO or DRAC. I have resolved the HDD issues w/ the array (replaced a disk), and the array is shown under Devices as 'HP Serial Attached SCSIDisk'. 6 HDDs are configured in a RAID10 array, and the ESXi host OS is operating on local USB stick.Ī recent issue w/ the raid array caused a crash of the resident VMs, and now the "ESXi host does not have persistent storage" message is displayed.

The issue I'm having involves a HP N40L Microserver w/ local storage on a HP SmartArray P410 controller.
