Albert Widjaja
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Unable to browse to VMFS datastore ?
People,
I'm having very serious issue with the VMFS access to iSCSI presented LUN from HPE Lefthand P4300G2 that is currently full due to unknown reason overnight:
Symptoms:
1. The VCenter VM is unable to be accessed since it is running in the VMFS datastore that is full like the above.
2. I'm unable to browse to the VMFS LUN from any ESXi servers.
3. After Rescan All, the VMFS datastore is listed as inaccessible.
4. Directly accessing the ESXi where the VCenter server VM is running with root password from Windows vSphere console was hung/cannot be accessed while the LUN is presented to the ESXi servers group.
5. Directly accessing the ESXi where the VCenter server VM is running with root password from Windows vSphere console is now possible after the LUN is unpresented or not published to the ESXi servers group.
So how can I access this VMFS datastore to erase unused VMs ?
VMware support has mentioned that this is not their problem due to the HPE iSCSI LUN is HPE Storage team issue.
Since this is running on the old HPE Lefthand P4300 G2 (4x nodes) it has already out of support.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
I'm having very serious issue with the VMFS access to iSCSI presented LUN from HPE Lefthand P4300G2 that is currently full due to unknown reason overnight:
Symptoms:
1. The VCenter VM is unable to be accessed since it is running in the VMFS datastore that is full like the above.
2. I'm unable to browse to the VMFS LUN from any ESXi servers.
3. After Rescan All, the VMFS datastore is listed as inaccessible.
4. Directly accessing the ESXi where the VCenter server VM is running with root password from Windows vSphere console was hung/cannot be accessed while the LUN is presented to the ESXi servers group.
5. Directly accessing the ESXi where the VCenter server VM is running with root password from Windows vSphere console is now possible after the LUN is unpresented or not published to the ESXi servers group.
So how can I access this VMFS datastore to erase unused VMs ?
VMware support has mentioned that this is not their problem due to the HPE iSCSI LUN is HPE Storage team issue.
Since this is running on the old HPE Lefthand P4300 G2 (4x nodes) it has already out of support.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
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In this case I will endeavor to create 4x 10 TB LUNs for the VMFS datastore with 15x VMs maximum rather than 1x 40 TB with all 60x VMs running.