This time I got a weird error when
installing ESXi 5.1 on a boot via SAN disk.
The error was: Could not format a VMFS
volume
Turns out that it was related with
multipath and failover policy of the storage I’ve been using.
It’s an EMC Clariion by the way.
To make it works we needed to change the
failover mode from 4 to 1.
What is weird about it is that failover
mode 4 is not documented on the EMC website (it’s always possible that I did
not look at the right place).
VMware has also a KB (2068) stating about this
configuration.
After this change the installation
proceeded without any issue.
Bye.
