Just received 6 new UCS C210-M2s, four of them are perfect but having problems with two of them; All of the servers came with the RAID arrays built, one around 135GB and the other around 985GB. After installing vSphere 4.1 U2 on one of the servers, I am unable to "add" local storage of the 985GB array. vSphere sees the storage, but gives and error when I try to add it... all the other servers are fine. I ran the diagnostics and it came back clean and passed.
On the second defective server, the BIOS sees the obove board Broadcom Quad NICs, but vSphere does not. I am channeling and trunking the 4GE Boradcom NICs on all the server and so select them during the vSphere setup screen, but on this server only the 2 onboard intel NICs show up for selection. I've run the SUU on all 6 of the servers and have the latest firmware and BIOS. Thought I'd throw this out in the community, to see if I'm completly missing something (rookie mistake), before opening a TAC case tomorrow.
vSphere error when trying to add the data store: "Call "HostDatastoreSystem.QueryVmfsDatastoreCreateOptions" for object "ha-datastoresystem" on ESXi "10.65.200.144" failed."
