Hi, I'm having troubles with ESXi and UCS.
We have an UCS C200 M2 and ESXi 5.1.0-799733 (customized for Cisco). It had a VM with Windows Server 2008 R2 and we installed a Recording Server (by Calabrio). Two weeks ago, suddenly it stopped recording. When we tried to open main directory of Recording Server, it showed that an I/O error. We rebooted the VM but showed again this error.
After some troubleshooting, we decide to reboot ESXi and UCS. Then ESXi shows a missing or damaged file, state.tgz. We tried to repair installation by upgrade and install but keeping VMFS partitions, but it didn't work. It showed : "Could not create locker database".
Then, we tried to boot from local storage, it showed:
"Bank 5: invalid configuration
Bank 6: invalid configuration
No hypervisor found"
My theory is that HDD drive has a physical problem. But BIOS has not SMART tool to discard this.
My question is: Do we do something wrong while installing? Is there any form to discard that hdd drive is broken or damaged?
I will thank you for your responses.