Hey Everyone,
We have a customer who has a couple of external e-Sata drives that they use to backup data from their VM servers. My question is - is there a way to 'hot add' a basic e-sata disk, and have the ESXi host (5.0 in this instance) scan for the device without having to reboot the host? The behavior I see is that the drive is not seen when initially plugged in, but after a reboot, the host recognizes the drive. Is that normal behavior?
This customer only has a single esxi host, and if this is possible to hot-add an e-sata drive (even via esxi cmdline), it would be benefitial to them.
The drives get passed directly to the onboard SATA controller on the MOBO. Server is HP DL360 Gen8 - I'm going to research and make sure I don't have to make any special configurations to make the Sata controller support hot swap.
Thoughts?
