You know how sometimes things just won’t work. Well I’m having one of those evenings. The problem at hand for the last few days was to create a datastore on a USB stick on my ESXi 4.0.0 system, booted from a USB stick.<\/p>\n
Well I couldn’t get it to work and by the looks of things neither has anyone else, although it apparently worked in 3.5. (Problem 1)<\/p>\n
I want to create a datastore on a USB not only because it would be very useful but also to migrate my existing VMs onto it so I could delete my disk based datastore and re-partition my drive in order to install more physical O\/Ss than just Ubuntu.<\/p>\n
Anyway, since I couldn’t create any other datastore I just deleted my VMs and thought it would be quick to re-create them. So try to delete the datastore I created. Can’t do it: ‘Unable to remove datastore xxxxxxx the resource is in use’ (Problem 2).<\/p>\n
Lots of people had that problem but none seem to match my scenario.<\/p>\n
OK, just boot into Ubuntu and re-partition the drive. Unfortunately I get errors trying to delete the partition and it ends up in a right mess. (Problem 3). The only way to get out of this looks like reformatting the hard drive and re-installing Ubuntu.<\/p>\n
So I take my USB drive which I wiped to try and make a datastore. Now I can’t format it (Problem 4).<\/p>\n
See what I mean?<\/p>\n
Now I’ve blown 1hr 40mins time budget on problems but I finally just managed to re-format the USB key and use Unetbootin to put Ubuntu back on. Hurrah! I can boot my machine with it.<\/p>\n
But wait! I can’t now even format the hard drive in my machine when booted from the USB Ubuntu: “An error occurred while performing an operation on “1TB Hard Disk” (ATA Hitachi…): The operation failed. It thinks it is in use.<\/p>\n
I’m going to bed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
You know how sometimes things just won’t work. Well I’m having one of those evenings. The problem at hand for the last few days was to create a datastore on a USB stick on my ESXi 4.0.0 system, booted from … Continue reading