Unable to find disk in RHEL5.5 virtual machine on a VMWare hypervisor

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Issue

  • Unable to find disk in RHEL5.5 virtual machine on a VMWare hypervisor
  • When you click to create filesystem there is an error: no valid devices were found on which to create a filesystem.
An error has occurred. No valid devices were found  on which to create new filesystems. Please check your hardware for the cause of the problem.
  • This is a new vm rhel 5.5 created in VMware.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5

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