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jordannet
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Urgent Help Needed : Losing Storage After Rename iSCSI target

hello guys ,

i need help , i have had problem with one of my iSCSI target that have all vms on it , this iSCSI target on iomega NAS Storage device , suddenly the storage is no longer available , i tried to rename the iSCSI target from "VmwareStorage" to "VmwareStorage1" , but its no longer shown (its was visible on one vsphere servers) , but now its visible as DOS partition , please help to get it back to vsphere without loosing any of data and vms inside it. note that i am using Vsphere 5.5 ...see attached picture :

the selected one is DOS 16-bit>=32M , its must be VMFS as all others stores , i don't want loose my vms the business will stop and i will fired Smiley Sad

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jordannet
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i fixed it .. i followed this kb from vmware

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=204661...

thank you vmware , thank you linux :red_heart:

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Hi

Welcome to the communities.

Could you please share the output or below command.

partedUtil get /vmfs/devices/disks/DeviceName

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jordannet
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yes sure ...here is the output .. i followed every step in the article its solved the problem

partedUtil get /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.5005907f9d89b897

/dev/disks # partedUtil get /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.5005907f9d89b897

261083 255 63 4194304000

1 2048 4194303966 0 0

/dev/disks #

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