How to completely format the hard drives attached to the server

Prosaugat,

Would you confirm how the drives are attached, and to what? Such as if it backplaned or cabled, and also if it is connected via a raid controller (if so what raid controller)?

If you are using a raid controller, would you confirm if you have created a virtual disk with the drives yet, if so are they visible from the controllers BIOS?

Let me know what you see.

Actually, there are 4 disks attached to its front slot. You can see the photo attached.\

Firstly, I made the RAID 10 from these 4 drives then I and it's properly showing on BIOS but after the ESXi installation, the storage is zero. like the below image. Also, I break the RAID again and made 4 separate physical disks but again the ESXi shows no data store.

**Note: Before installing the ESXi 7.3, there was xcpng.

Hi @prosaugat,

Based on VMWare's HCL site, PowerEdge R320 does not support ESXi 7.3. Can you please try to install 6.3 U2 using Dell's customized ISO from our download page: https://dell.to/3J40QJ1;

Sorry for the inconvenience but the Version you are trying will not work due to a compatibility issue, do check the Compatibility matrix before proceeding.

coming to your Question you can delete the VD and recreate it by entering it into the raid BIOS.

Yes, I can easily create and delete virtual disks.

I didn't get the actual download link of 6.3 U2 on your page. Can you provide me with the direct download link?

The latest version I see supported, on both Vmware and ours sites, is ESXi 6.5U3 found here.