Good day all, we upgraded our vCenter server from 2008 to 2008r2. Yay. (2008 bad, r2 good). Once we did this, we ran into a problem where the vCenter services weren't starting. Searching the net revealed nothing. Our guess was that the sql server was not all the way started when the services were started. Changing the services to automatic (delayed) still did not fix it. Adding the MSSQLSERVER service as a dependency did not work either. One way we found to get around it is really cheesy. Create

Well, ran into an issue where we couldn't create a datastore on our freshly set up array. A lot of people said the solution was to install windows and format the disks with NTFS. While that might work, I didn't want to do that. You have a couple of other options You can use a Windows Vista/7/2008/2008r2 install disk and after you click the first install button, press Shift+F10 to get a command prompt. You can then use DiskPart. Or, if you would rather do this in the ESX shell try zeroing out