Hi,
I have an ESXi 6.7 home lab running on a Intel NUC.
It has a Kingston NVMe SSD (KINGSTON SA1000M).
Anyway the ESXi boots just fine from it but the datastore that's on the same drive is suddenly gone.
I can see the drive under Storage -> Devices and it says it has these partitions:
5. Basic Data (249.98 MB)
6. Basic Data (249.98 MB)
7. VMware Diagnostic (109.98 MB)
8. Basic Data (285.98 MB)
9. VMware Diagnostic (2.5 GB)
3. VMFS (439.75 GB)
My guess is that the drive is probably dead/dying but I'm still looking for information on how to troubleshoot it further and maybe salvage something.
Going through SSH and trying to cd into /vmfs/volumes/datastore1 I get Input/output error.
Are there any commands that can show me why ESXi can't mount the datastore?
Thanks
Info from esxcli storage core device list
t10.NVMe____KINGSTON_SA1000M8480G___________________35DE7D2128B72600
Display Name: Local NVMe Disk (t10.NVMe____KINGSTON_SA1000M8480G___________________35DE7D2128B72600)
Has Settable Display Name: true
Size: 457862
Device Type: Direct-Access
Multipath Plugin: NMP
Devfs Path: /vmfs/devices/disks/t10.NVMe____KINGSTON_SA1000M8480G___________________35DE7D2128B72600
Vendor: NVMe
Model: KINGSTON SA1000M
Revision: E8FK
SCSI Level: 6
Is Pseudo: false
Status: on
Is RDM Capable: false
Is Local: true
Is Removable: false
Is SSD: true
Is VVOL PE: false
Is Offline: false
Is Perennially Reserved: false
Queue Full Sample Size: 0
Queue Full Threshold: 0
Thin Provisioning Status: yes
Attached Filters:
VAAI Status: unknown
Other UIDs: vml.0100000000333544455f374432315f323842375f32363030004b494e475354
Is Shared Clusterwide: false
Is SAS: false
Is USB: false
Is Boot Device: true
Device Max Queue Depth: 1023
No of outstanding IOs with competing worlds: 32
Drive Type: unknown
RAID Level: unknown
Number of Physical Drives: unknown
Protection Enabled: false
PI Activated: false
PI Type: 0
PI Protection Mask: NO PROTECTION
Supported Guard Types: NO GUARD SUPPORT
DIX Enabled: false
DIX Guard Type: NO GUARD SUPPORT
Emulated DIX/DIF Enabled: false
esxcli storage core device partition list
Device Partition Start Sector End Sector Type Size
-------------------------------------------------------------------- --------- ------------ ---------- ---- ------------
t10.NVMe____KINGSTON_SA1000M8480G___________________35DE7D2128B72600 0 0 937703087 0 480103981056
t10.NVMe____KINGSTON_SA1000M8480G___________________35DE7D2128B72600 1 64 8191 0 4161536
t10.NVMe____KINGSTON_SA1000M8480G___________________35DE7D2128B72600 2 7086080 15472639 6 4293918720
t10.NVMe____KINGSTON_SA1000M8480G___________________35DE7D2128B72600 3 15472640 937703054 fb 472181972480
t10.NVMe____KINGSTON_SA1000M8480G___________________35DE7D2128B72600 5 8224 520191 6 262127616
t10.NVMe____KINGSTON_SA1000M8480G___________________35DE7D2128B72600 6 520224 1032191 6 262127616
t10.NVMe____KINGSTON_SA1000M8480G___________________35DE7D2128B72600 7 1032224 1257471 fc 115326976
t10.NVMe____KINGSTON_SA1000M8480G___________________35DE7D2128B72600 8 1257504 1843199 6 299876352
t10.NVMe____KINGSTON_SA1000M8480G___________________35DE7D2128B72600 9 1843200 7086079 fc 2684354560
