I am wondering if anyone else is seeing any strangeness when using non enterprise grade SSD storage with the freshly released vSphere 6?
Specifically, I am having problems adding them as local storage. I have not had any issues with my enterprise Hitachi HDD, nor my elderly Intel SLC SSD (X25E) They show up appropriately as HDD and SSD datastores, and when I add them using add storage, it happens quickly and w/o incident. Also, my consumer grade Seagate Baracuda green HDDs were added w/o incident.
When I tried to add a consumer SSD (240GB OCZ Agility 4) it took a few minutes to add it (instead of the expected few moments) and then the interface was "refreshing" for a few more minutes, then it simply disappeared.
This system (Lenovo TS-140) was working as built just fine with 5.5, but after a fresh install (not upgrade) to v6 the OCZ SSD is not functional.
I have a second system (another TS140) that is having similar issues. The Intel SLC SSD is added quickly and w/o incident. The Hitachi HDD, as well, no issues. I added an unused OCZ 60 GB agility 3 consumer grade SSD, and while it took a long while to add it in, it seems to work, OK
However, the two corsair consumer SSD (120GB force) well if you try to add either, it errors out, does not finish, and you need to hard power off the host to get it to respond again.
This second system did NOT have any SSDs in it when it was running 5.5, but they do pass the corsair toolkit tests.
Specifically, I am having problems adding them as local storage. I have not had any issues with my enterprise Hitachi HDD, nor my elderly Intel SLC SSD (X25E) They show up appropriately as HDD and SSD datastores, and when I add them using add storage, it happens quickly and w/o incident. Also, my consumer grade Seagate Baracuda green HDDs were added w/o incident.
When I tried to add a consumer SSD (240GB OCZ Agility 4) it took a few minutes to add it (instead of the expected few moments) and then the interface was "refreshing" for a few more minutes, then it simply disappeared.
This system (Lenovo TS-140) was working as built just fine with 5.5, but after a fresh install (not upgrade) to v6 the OCZ SSD is not functional.
I have a second system (another TS140) that is having similar issues. The Intel SLC SSD is added quickly and w/o incident. The Hitachi HDD, as well, no issues. I added an unused OCZ 60 GB agility 3 consumer grade SSD, and while it took a long while to add it in, it seems to work, OK
However, the two corsair consumer SSD (120GB force) well if you try to add either, it errors out, does not finish, and you need to hard power off the host to get it to respond again.
This second system did NOT have any SSDs in it when it was running 5.5, but they do pass the corsair toolkit tests.