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drlewis66
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ESX 5.5.0 - Datastore 'SATA_NoRAID_01' conflicts with an existing datastore in the datacenter that has the same URL

I have a Home Lab  with 1 host that I recently setup to study for my VCP and hope you can help me with this issue.

I upgraded the VCSA via the Install updates in the VCSA. The upgrade was from 5.5.0.10000 Build 1624811 to 5.5.0.10200 Build 1891314.

1) Received this error when I booted up the ESXi Server & attempted to logon to the web client;

Failed to verify the SSL certificate for one or more vCenter Server Systems: https://vCenterServerFQDN:443/sdk

To Fix this I followed KB 2033338 and enabled Certificate regeneration then rebooted the VCenter appliance. Please note I have not got SSO Enabled

After this I was able to logon to the Web client all the data stores were showing as inaccessible. I rebooted the ESXi Host ( Only running 1 host at present)  but the data stores still showing as inaccessible.

I disconnected the ESXi host and have not been able to reconnect. I get the following error;

Datastore 'SATA_NoRAID_01' conflicts with an existing datastore in the datacenter that has the same URL (ds:///vmfs/volumes/535f0166-cd19b3f2-8d9f-a0369f390962/), but is backed by different physical storage.

I found KB 2036481, Connected to the ESXi Host via Putty and ran the esxcfg-scsidevs -m  command ( Output attached) and then ran the ls -lrth /vmfs/devices/disks | grep -i naa Command but nothing output.

I have disconnected the hard disks that contain the Datastores & reconnected them to different SATA ports but this has not resolved the issue.

Please let me know how I can Connect my ESXi Host again to the VCenter and make the DataStore active again.

Regards

David

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SG1234
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hi -- seems like grepping for naa will only return SAN devices .. so do ls -lrth /vmfs/devices/disks | grep mpx -- if that too does not return much just paste the whole of ls -lrth /vmfs/devices/disks -- we can work from there

~Sai Garimella

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drlewis66
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Hi,

The output of the two commands is below;

~ # ls -lrth /vmfs/devices/disks | grep mpx

lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root          22 Jul  7 07:20 vml.0000000000766d6862613       3323a303a30:8 -> mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0:8

lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root          22 Jul  7 07:20 vml.0000000000766d6862613       3323a303a30:7 -> mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0:7

lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root          22 Jul  7 07:20 vml.0000000000766d6862613       3323a303a30:6 -> mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0:6

lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root          22 Jul  7 07:20 vml.0000000000766d6862613       3323a303a30:5 -> mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0:5

lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root          22 Jul  7 07:20 vml.0000000000766d6862613       3323a303a30:4 -> mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0:4

lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root          22 Jul  7 07:20 vml.0000000000766d6862613       3323a303a30:1 -> mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0:1

lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root          20 Jul  7 07:20 vml.0000000000766d6862613       3323a303a30 -> mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0

-rw-------    1 root     root      286.0M Jul  7 07:20 mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0:8

-rw-------    1 root     root      110.0M Jul  7 07:20 mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0:7

-rw-------    1 root     root      250.0M Jul  7 07:20 mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0:6

-rw-------    1 root     root      250.0M Jul  7 07:20 mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0:5

-rw-------    1 root     root        4.0M Jul  7 07:20 mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0:4

-rw-------    1 root     root      896.0M Jul  7 07:20 mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0:1

-rw-------    1 root     root        7.5G Jul  7 07:20 mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0

~ # ls -lrth /vmfs/devices/disks

totTotal 5870198368

lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root          73 Jul  7 07:23 vml.010000000020202020202        02020202020205a31463530593256535432303030 -> t10.ATA_____ST2000DM0012D1CH164____                                                                                                                               ______________________________Z1F50Y2V

lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root          75 Jul  7 07:23 vml.010000000020202020202        02020202020205a3145374c573832535432303030:1 -> t10.ATA_____ST2000DM0012D1CH164__                                                                                                                               ________________________________Z1E7LW82:1

lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root          73 Jul  7 07:23 vml.010000000020202020202        02020202020205a3145374c573832535432303030 -> t10.ATA_____ST2000DM0012D1CH164____                                                                                                                               ______________________________Z1E7LW82

lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root          22 Jul  7 07:23 vml.0000000000766d6862613        3323a303a30:8 -> mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0:8

lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root          22 Jul  7 07:23 vml.0000000000766d6862613        3323a303a30:7 -> mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0:7

lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root          22 Jul  7 07:23 vml.0000000000766d6862613        3323a303a30:6 -> mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0:6

lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root          22 Jul  7 07:23 vml.0000000000766d6862613        3323a303a30:5 -> mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0:5

lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root          22 Jul  7 07:23 vml.0000000000766d6862613        3323a303a30:4 -> mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0:4

lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root          22 Jul  7 07:23 vml.0000000000766d6862613        3323a303a30:1 -> mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0:1

lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root          20 Jul  7 07:23 vml.0000000000766d6862613        3323a303a30 -> mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0

-rw-------    1 root     root        1.8T Jul  7 07:23 t10.ATA_____ST2000DM0012D        1CH164__________________________________Z1F50Y2V

-rw-------    1 root     root        1.8T Jul  7 07:23 t10.ATA_____ST2000DM0012D        1CH164__________________________________Z1E7LW82:1

-rw-------    1 root     root        1.8T Jul  7 07:23 t10.ATA_____ST2000DM0012D        1CH164__________________________________Z1E7LW82

-rw-------    1 root     root      286.0M Jul  7 07:23 mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0:8

-rw-------    1 root     root      110.0M Jul  7 07:23 mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0:7

-rw-------    1 root     root      250.0M Jul  7 07:23 mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0:6

-rw-------    1 root     root      250.0M Jul  7 07:23 mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0:5

-rw-------    1 root     root        4.0M Jul  7 07:23 mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0:4

-rw-------    1 root     root      896.0M Jul  7 07:23 mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0:1

-rw-------    1 root     root        7.5G Jul  7 07:23 mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0

Appreciate the help.

Regards

David

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SG1234
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thanks - how many datastores were here prior to the upgrade ? was it just one ?

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drlewis66
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There were 2 Datastores prior to the Upgrade. The Server also has 3 x SATA Drives, two containing the 2x Data stores and the 3rd disk not in use yet.

Regards

David

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SG1234
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just searched thru the archives -- this seems more relevant as you have only one ESX host -- my suggestion according to that would be to disconnect the drives - reinstall ESXi and connect them back

Cannot add host to vCenter server because datastore is shared with an existing vCenter host

~Sai Garimella

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HariRajan
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Please find the  step by step resolution in attachment , which will take hardly 5-10 minutes to resolve

Thanks & Regards in Plenteous . Hari Rajan
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