I think I just found out the reason why I had never run into this before. support.microsoft.com/.../971436 All previous editions I successfully used HIT/ME on was under Windows "Standard" and not "DataCenter"  The fix in the KB resolves the issue.
Running into something odd when doing the typical addition of a guest attached volume.  Done this several dozen times before, but am running into something odd in a different environment.  Here's the rundown. [URL] Connectivity through each NIC is fine.  I run Diskpart and "list disk" and the new volume shows up. I select the disk in diskpart, then run "Create Partition Primary Align=64"  This is where it gets weird.  I get the result of:  "DiskPart has encountered an error:  The media is write protected."  See the System Event Log for more information." I jump into the event log, and see: "VDS fails to write boot code on a disk during clean operation.  Error code:  80070013[NAME]" Has anyone ever run into this?  I've done this dozens of times and never have had a problem.  I checked and rechecked, and everything looks fine.  The one thing I did notice to which I couldn't remember, was that when I did a "list disk" it did show the volume as "offline" (which I couldn't remember if that was normal or not).  I manually turned it online in diskpart, but that had no affect.  I repeated the entire process, and the same result occured.  Am I overlooking something? (Moderator:  Accidently posted in other section.  Please disregard original post and accept my apologies)
Encountering error in diskpart when creating EqualLogic guest attached volume