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  • 1.  Hypervisor installtion issues.

    Posted Jun 22, 2015 11:07 PM

    Hello trying to instal hypervisor 6.0 on a Dell R710

    As per KB i updated BIOS to latest 6.4.0 and all firmware.

    I keep getting this error:

    This programs has encountered and error"

    Error:

    partedutil failed with message: Error: invalid partition table on /dev/disks/naa..... -- wrong signature 1800.

    Unable to read partition for device

    Thank you.

    /vmfs/devices/disk/naa...



  • 2.  RE: Hypervisor installtion issues.
    Best Answer

    Posted Jun 23, 2015 04:44 AM

    Before the installation  "Zero out " the LUN .

    please follow  this KB VMware KB: Formatting a new LUN in ESXi 5.x fails with the error: No Implementation: Support for adding partitions t…



  • 3.  RE: Hypervisor installtion issues.

    Posted Jun 24, 2015 12:46 PM

    Thank you very much!



  • 4.  RE: Hypervisor installtion issues.

    Posted Jun 23, 2015 04:46 AM

    To zero out the Disk please run this command

    dd if=/dev/zero of="/vmfs/devices/disks/DeviceName" bs=512 count=34 conv=notrunc



  • 5.  RE: Hypervisor installtion issues.

    Posted Aug 05, 2015 11:36 PM

    I ran into this same problem.  Deleting and re-creating the array and Logical drives on the HP controller wouldn't do the trick.  I ended up pulling out the disks, sticking them it into a windows machine, initializing them, creating a partition on them, deleting that partition and then putting them back into the server where I then once again created the array and logical drives.  That did the trick.



  • 6.  RE: Hypervisor installtion issues.

    Posted Aug 05, 2015 11:39 PM

    Here is the full error message so others can find this thread easier.

    This program has encountered an error:

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    Error (see log for more info):

    partedUtil failed with message: Unable to read partition table for

    device /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.xxxxxxx

    .

    The preceding information will assist the vmware support team with

    your problem.  Please record this information before proceeding.



  • 7.  RE: Hypervisor installtion issues.

    Posted Dec 29, 2015 11:05 AM

    I had the same problem and I started the server with an ubuntu and I did the following:

    dd if=/dev/zero of=“/dev/sda” bs=512 count=34 conv=notrunc

    Because in my case the problem disk was sda.

    The Zeroed was really fast, It took only 5 seconds.




  • 8.  RE: Hypervisor installtion issues.

    Posted Jul 25, 2016 08:14 PM

    Ran into this on a HP Proliant server today. The fix was to set the array to bootable in the HP array manager. Another reason we buy Dells. :smileyangry: