newbie question: problem adding hard drive to existing VM

[awojtowicz]

I'm running esxi, 5.0.  i created a 1TB LUN in my san using unisphere.  i see the datastore in vsphere.  i tried adding it as another drive to my windows 2003 server.  it would be G drive.  but it never shows up in "disk Management".  i've done this before on my 2008 servers.  not sure why its not showing in 2003.

thanks

[vmroyale · Accepted solution]

Hello and welcome to the communities.

Did you add it as a virtual disk or a RDM?

Does the VM's properties reflect the disk being there?

Did you rescan the storage in Windows, after adding it?

[jjgunn]

vmroyale probably nailed this already but...

Did you install the Microsoft iSCSI connector and configure it properly in Windows?

[awojtowicz]

not sure why it didnt work at first but blew it away and tried again and now its working.  thanks for the help.