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I have a newly built ESXi server with two SSD's hooked up to the motherboard primary SATA controller. Everything was working until I made the mistake of enabling passthrough on that SATA controller. Now, ESXi will reboot & come up complaining it doesn't have any data stores configured:

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Each time I'll go in & uncheck passthrough for that controller & reboot again, but it keeps coming back up enabled. Not sure what to do from here?

I tried temporarily disabling VT-d in BIOS, but that didn't help. Passthrough showed disabled in ESXi, but I still got the persistent storage error.

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Why not just reinstall, which would reset the configuration.

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Probably what I'll have to do. – churnd Jun 19 '11 at 13:13
I re-installed. – churnd Mar 2 at 11:16
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Assuming you don't expect any data to still exist on the SSD drives, disable VT-D, reboot and create a new datastore in the storage tab on the SSD's. That would become your "persistent storage".

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One of the SSD's is the ESXi boot disk. – churnd Jun 19 '11 at 3:51
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