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After reading this article, if there is a better way to solve this partition problem, please leave your footprints in the message area and discuss it together.

The so-called deletion means that you have tried:

Delete partitions in vsphere web via GUI; remove nodes from cluster, then delete them via command partedUtil tool

After deleting partition information above, try the following:

Reset or reinstall esxi operating system; manually delete partition information through node vsphere web;

Check to see if partition information is still available by issuing the following command;ls /vmfs/devices/disks/

If there are still partitions, mount the Windows or Linux iso to cdrom, then boot the installation from cdrom, identify the disk with partition information, and perform partition deletion.

Stubborn. The partition information can only be deleted by mounting iso. [root@shvsan05node10:~] partedUtil delete /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.5000c500c1da6d53 1Error: Function not implemented during read on /dev/disks/naa.5000c500c1da6d53Error: The primary GPT table states that the backup GPT is located beyond the end of disk. This may happen if the disk has shrunk or partition table is corrupted. Fix, by writing backup table at the end? This will also fix the last usable sector appropriately as per the new reduced size. diskPath (/dev/disks/naa.5000c500c1da6d53) diskSize (3516328368) AlternateLBA (35162624431) LastUsableLBA (35162624398)Warning: The available space to /dev/disks/naa.5000c500c1da6d53 appears to have shrunk. This may happen if the disk size has reduced. The space has been reduced by (31646296064 blocks). You can fix the GPT to correct the available space or continue with the current settings ? This will also move the backup table at the end if it is not at the end already. diskSize (3516328368) AlternateLBA (35162624431) LastUsableLBA (35162624398) NewLastUsableLBA (3516328334) Error: Can't have a partition outside the disk! Unable to construct disk from device /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.5000c500c1da6d53 By mounting Ubuntu's iso, you can see that there is a partition with a fat32 file system! [](https://s1.51cto.com/images/blog/201912/09/184300aa59f5e989db416419413ba879.png? x-oss-process=image/watermark,size_16,text_QDUxQ1RP5Y2a5a6i,color_FF,t_100,g_se,x_10,y_10,shadow_90,type_ZmFuZ3poZW5naGVpdGk =) Perform deletion operation, really slow. Visual inspection takes more than 1 hour. 14:50pm~! [](https://s1.51cto.com/images/blog/201912/09/02f0412e9bebade6089106080da8f97e.png? x-oss-process=image/watermark,size_16,text_QDUxQ1RP5Y2a5a6i,color_FFFFFF,t_100,g_se,x_10,y_10,shadow_90,type_ZmFuZ3poZW5naGVpdGk=)

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