{"id":6614,"date":"2020-09-08T13:21:52","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T12:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/?p=6614"},"modified":"2020-10-08T18:50:28","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T17:50:28","slug":"vmware-vsphere-6-5-cant-add-existing-iscsi-lun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/vmware-vsphere-6-5-cant-add-existing-iscsi-lun\/","title":{"rendered":"VMware vSphere 6.5 Can\u2019t Add Existing iSCSI LUN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3>VMware vSphere 6.5 Can\u2019t Add Existing iSCSI LUN<\/h3>\n<p>my collegue was on customer and he configure the storage array for backups. The procedure was, that old storage array DS1012G1 was replaced with brand new Infortrend DS1012G2. The hdd was placed in the same order as in the old array. It was about 2 LUNs, one 16 TB Lun and 64 TB lun for backups. We reconfigured the new array, set host lun mappings and set iSCSI IP addresses \u2013 different that was on old array.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Screenshot-2020-09-08-at-14.09.53.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6615 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Screenshot-2020-09-08-at-14.09.53-494x130.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"494\" height=\"130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Screenshot-2020-09-08-at-14.09.53-494x130.png 494w, https:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Screenshot-2020-09-08-at-14.09.53-288x76.png 288w, https:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Screenshot-2020-09-08-at-14.09.53-768x201.png 768w, https:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Screenshot-2020-09-08-at-14.09.53.png 797w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 494px) 100vw, 494px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Both luns was visible in VMware on all nodes (3x ESXi 6.5 with vCenter 6.5) under iSCSI storage devides. But datastore is not visible. Both luns were Attached but not consumed. On the esx1 node i tried to add new storage and <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.vmware.com\/en\/VMware-vSphere\/5.5\/com.vmware.vsphere.hostclient.doc\/GUID-5CEE90E2-1DE3-44D5-82FB-6901B45CE801.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Keep Existing Signature<\/a> &#8211; and it was OK. The datastore is visible ! but only on the 1 node of 3.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Screenshot-2020-09-08-at-13.33.21.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6616 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Screenshot-2020-09-08-at-13.33.21-494x221.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"494\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Screenshot-2020-09-08-at-13.33.21-494x221.png 494w, https:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Screenshot-2020-09-08-at-13.33.21-288x129.png 288w, https:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Screenshot-2020-09-08-at-13.33.21-768x343.png 768w, https:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Screenshot-2020-09-08-at-13.33.21.png 1125w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 494px) 100vw, 494px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I run the putty to the esx2 and esx3 node. Using the\u00a0<strong>esxcfg-volume<\/strong> command, I list out the volumes detected.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Screenshot-2020-09-08-at-13.35.42.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6617 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Screenshot-2020-09-08-at-13.35.42-494x192.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"494\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Screenshot-2020-09-08-at-13.35.42-494x192.png 494w, https:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Screenshot-2020-09-08-at-13.35.42-288x112.png 288w, https:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Screenshot-2020-09-08-at-13.35.42.png 746w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 494px) 100vw, 494px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using the e<strong>sxcfg-volume &#8211;<\/strong>M <strong>UUID<\/strong> command ( -M for persistent , -m for non persistent) mount the volume. Now hop back to vCenter and take a look at the datastores.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6618\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6618\" style=\"width: 494px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Screenshot-2020-09-08-at-13.35.45.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-6618 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Screenshot-2020-09-08-at-13.35.45-e1599567674191-494x177.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"494\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Screenshot-2020-09-08-at-13.35.45-e1599567674191-494x177.png 494w, https:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Screenshot-2020-09-08-at-13.35.45-e1599567674191-288x103.png 288w, https:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Screenshot-2020-09-08-at-13.35.45-e1599567674191.png 711w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 494px) 100vw, 494px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6618\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">IFN_64TB and IFN_16TB are BACK !<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VMware vSphere 6.5 Can\u2019t Add Existing iSCSI LUN my collegue was on customer and he configure the storage array for backups. 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