hoping you can point me in the right direction here.
I scored an older HP DL 360G6 and have been having issues installing ESXi. After a bit of searching around a few people suggested completely formatting the drives and then re-creating the arrays and trying again. But for the life of me I cannot work out how to completely wipe these drives using the built in HP Array controls! I downloaded the HP smart start utility and have been all through the Array setup in there but there are no options to format the drives – only options to create arrays, delete them, create volumes etc. I've tried the OCRA and again – it only allows you to create and delete volumes.
I've even tried grabbing Hirens and a few other apps to no avail as none of them can see the drives as they are on the P410 controller.
Any assistance is greatly appreciated 🙂
Best Answer
You have plenty of options here... You're using the right utilities.
Some of this is understanding how the HP ProLiant storage array terminology. You don't really interact with the individual disks, nor does ESXi actually see any individual disks. ESXi (and any OS that leverages a Smart Array controller) needs to be presented a "logical drive".
In short:
So for you, just create a logical drive of the desired RAID level (please use RAID 1+0 for ESXi) and size (defaults to the full array size). That's it. Once done, you will be able to install ESXi.