External SSD not showing up in ESXi Storage

[imZayed]

Hi!

Sidenote:- I'm very new to ESXi so please bear with me.

I'm using ESXi on the Raspberry Pi 4 8GB. I have a WD Green 240GB SSD connect to a USB 3.0 to SATA adapter and I just can't seem to get it to work. I have tried EVERYTHING. I Disabled USB Arbitrator and it still won't show up. I really need this to work but it just won't. Even when I flash the vmWare ESXi image to the SSD, it doesn't show up in the Arm Fling Device Setup.

[Cyprien Laplace]

From a high level perspective it seems that ESXi has issues with the USB/SSD adapter (the RPI seems to be able to boot from it, so it's unlikely to be a hardware problem).

Can you boot ESXi, plug the disk, and then copy the /var/log/vmkernel.log file? I will likely contains errors related to USB.

Have you tried the same SSD with a different adapter?

[imZayed]

Hi! Here you go

 

2023-07-19T18:55:31.534Z cpu3:131529)DMA: 754: DMA Engine 'umass-sim2_dma_engine' created using mapper 'DMABounce'.
2023-07-19T18:55:33.600Z cpu2:131520)PCI: 95: Device 0xc5b4305ed801cc7 is not an PCI vmkDevice
2023-07-19T18:55:33.600Z cpu2:131520)WARNING: ScsiPath: 9354: Adapter Invalid does not exist
2023-07-19T18:55:33.600Z cpu2:131520)VMK_PCI: 1533: 0xc5b4305ed801cc7 is not a PCI device.
2023-07-19T18:55:34.624Z cpu0:131094)WARNING: NMP: nmp_DeviceRequestFastDeviceProbe:237: NMP device "mpx.vmhba35:C0:T0:L0" state in doubt; requested fast path state update...
2023-07-19T18:55:34.624Z cpu0:131094)ScsiDeviceIO: 4063: Cmd(0x452240fec880) 0x1a, CmdSN 0x928 from world 0 to dev "mpx.vmhba35:C0:T0:L0" failed H:0x7 D:0x0 P:0x0 Invalid sense data: 0x37 0x0 0x42.

I also don't have another adapter as I'm aware but I think I bought a USB 2.0 one a long time ago.

[imZayed]

, do you have a solution please?