Was trying to deploy a nested ESXi on VSAN backed storage and kept running into this error during install.
This program has encountered an error:
Error (see log for more info):
Could not format a vmfs volume.
Command ‘/usr/sbin/vmkfstools -C vmfs5 -b 1m -S datastore1
/vmfs/devices/disks/mpx.vmhba1:C0:T0:L0:3′ exited with status 1048320
Turns out the problem is with a SCSI-2 reservation being generated as part of creating a default VMFS datastore. You can read more here.
The fix was this simple hack. = run this in each of your hosts and no system reboot is required.
esxcli system settings advanced set -o /VSAN/FakeSCSIReservations -i 1
Enjoy!
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