ESXi Virtual Storage

so you can see and detect the existing LUNs ?

but the VMFS datastores defined on the LUNs are not currently accessible ?

Hi Andrew,

that would be correct

okay, can you access the console (via keyboard) or remotely via SSH, to type a command ?

I can ssh into esxi i check to syslog

it was showing iscsi connection 2:0 error (1011) State 3 attempts 2
but after at the end it connected successfully

please type...

esxcfg-volume -l at the prompt.

what is the output.... you should get something like

~ # esxcfg-volume -l
VMFS3 UUID/label: 4cc89503-f054d0d4-2865-00221958e471/nas3-vmfs
Can mount: Yes
Can resignature: No (the volume is being actively used)
Extent name: naa.600140588e9bab7d2b7ed4b53dadc1de:1     range: 0 - 1048319 (MB)

and then do a ...

esxcfg-volume -m 4cc89503-f054d0d4-2865-00221958e471

or

esxcfg-volume -m nas3-vmfs

to mount the datastore.

Hi Andrew,

I came in this morning to find that esxi 5.5 was installed which overwritten the settings,

would you have any guides to best practice for add MSA 2040 San to a esxi 5.5

So you just upgraded 5.1 to 5.5 ?

Certainly here are my EE Articles, also specific to 5.5 and 6.0.

HOW TO: Add an iSCSI Software Adaptor and Create an iSCSI Multipath Network in VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESXi 5.0

HOW TO: Enable Jumbo Frames on a VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi 5.0) host server using the VMware vSphere Client

Hi Andrew,

Thanks for the links we had them set up since this morning but still wasn't pointing to the SAN had to contact HP support, and we were running an out of date driver in which when we updated to 6 and rolled back to 5.1 the issues started. that the SAN was no longer being picked up.

i have since updated the Drivers which has now picked up the SAN. do you know how i can import all the Vm back into Vcenter from the Storage device