Hi,
i have setup ESXi 6.7 with 2 Datastores, installed a client machine.
Then i attached a RDX-SATA device. Because it was not reported in Manage->Hardware I probably made the following mistake.
I assumed that the Device "Hewlett-Packard Company Smart Array P410i" is the newly attached RDX but it was the RAID-Controler :smileyconfused: and switched it to Passthrough.
After a restart both Storages disappeared. Simply "Toggle passthrough" back to "Not capable" is not working because after the reboot it is still Active!
In a shell ls /dev/disks/ no disk is listed.
How can i turn back this setting? Please Help!
Do you have 2 separate datastores regardless of that new one added SATA disk?! Both of them are gone now?! Can you explain with more details, please
Where did you install the ESXi host?
Welcome to the Community,
please see whether the "Workaround" in https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1022011 helps you fixing the issue.
André
i have solved the problem. As i descibed i switched the Host RAID-Controller to passthrough (foolishly).
So all the disks, even on OS system level /dev/disks... were gone. On the Web-UI this action is irreversible!
Solution was to boot from live linux, mount the partition where state.tgz resides and change the "passthrough" value of the RAID Controler to "vmkernel"
in the /etc/vmware/esx.conf