VMware ESX 3.5 adn vCenter - vCenter is not seeing available space correctly.
Hello all. Here is the scenario:
I have an ESX 3.5 Host attached to a SAN. On this san there are several volumes which are available via different luns and they are all 100% seen by the host. Before now, I have been able to add volumes to datastores with no issues.
Today, I attempted to add a new volume to the host and create a new datastore. The volume is 2TB in size and the host sees it listed as the proper LUNs under the storage adapters. Each adapter has a different LUN, and both adapters see the proper size. However, when I attempt to "Add Storage" > Disk/LUN, as I always have, the "capacity" and "available" are totally different size.
The available is 10% of what the capacity listed shows. This volume space was used by another server directly connected to the SAN, but I completely deleted the contents and formatted the space before deleting the volume on the SAN. I recreated the SAN volume, re-associated the new volume with the ESX host, so everything should be fresh. Some of the troubleshooting I have done is:
I have re-created the volume and only associated one LUN/HBA to the volume, and I still get the same issue.
I have re-sized the volume, assigned LUN, "added storage" on the host, and the available size scales with the capacity of the volume. The available space is roughly 9-10% of the capacity seen.
I have issued the "service vmware-vpxa restart" command on the ESX host.
If I complete the datastore creation, the available space can be written to so zoning is correct.
I am at a loss as to why this is not being seen completely. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I have an ESX 3.5 Host attached to a SAN. On this san there are several volumes which are available via different luns and they are all 100% seen by the host. Before now, I have been able to add volumes to datastores with no issues.
Today, I attempted to add a new volume to the host and create a new datastore. The volume is 2TB in size and the host sees it listed as the proper LUNs under the storage adapters. Each adapter has a different LUN, and both adapters see the proper size. However, when I attempt to "Add Storage" > Disk/LUN, as I always have, the "capacity" and "available" are totally different size.
The available is 10% of what the capacity listed shows. This volume space was used by another server directly connected to the SAN, but I completely deleted the contents and formatted the space before deleting the volume on the SAN. I recreated the SAN volume, re-associated the new volume with the ESX host, so everything should be fresh. Some of the troubleshooting I have done is:
I have re-created the volume and only associated one LUN/HBA to the volume, and I still get the same issue.
I have re-sized the volume, assigned LUN, "added storage" on the host, and the available size scales with the capacity of the volume. The available space is roughly 9-10% of the capacity seen.
I have issued the "service vmware-vpxa restart" command on the ESX host.
If I complete the datastore creation, the available space can be written to so zoning is correct.
I am at a loss as to why this is not being seen completely. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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I resolved it. The SAN was just acting up. Thanks for answer so you get 500 points for free! :)
Coolio ! :-)
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