Trying to create a new data-store in VMWare? Is it giving you errors that are not very specific? Does the error happen to be:

“Error during the configuration of the host failed to get disk partition information”

Well if this is the error you get, you might want to try the steps found in the following article.

http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-1382

This post solved my data-store problems. The linux voodoo that this document had me perform created my data-store just like it needed to be created and even let me move my data over. This is quite a big improvement when I wasn’t able to do much of anything.