I have the following issue.
Once Synology LUN was mounted to ESXi as a datastore and used.
Somehow connection lost and now can not mount back to ESXi. If I try it shows empty:
I tried the following command: esxcfg-volume -l
It's empty..
Any idea how can I get back almost 1TB of my data?
Probabaly want to call VMware support, looks like the datastore was deleted.
How to mount the ISCSI to any OS and scan-gain back at least the VMs?
(I'm able to mount to a Windows server for example but what to use to see the filesystem/data)
Try to contact continuum, he might be able to help.
André
> I'm able to mount to a Windows server for example but what to use to see the filesystem/data.
Be very very careful when using iSCSI-LUNs from Windows.
I have seen to many cases when trying to do so made the case worse.
Do you have dd on that Windows machine ? - then try to create a dump of the first 1536MBs.
At the moment there are no free ware tools for Linux or Windows that can reliably mount the latest VMFS version.
vmfs-tools for Linux when installed from standard repositories can not read vmdks larger than 256GB.
Anyway - please read
http://vm-sickbay.com/create-a-vmfs-header-dump-using-an-esxi-host-in-production
and provide a download for the compressed dump.
With the dump I can suggest what to do next.
Ulli