datastore lost after adaptec firmwareupdate

[AuZASD]

Hi,

I have updated the firmware of my adaptec 71605. after reboot all my guests are showing /vmfs/volume/blabla

I found VMware Datastore missing after driver update and reboot witch point to vSphere handling of LUNs detected as snapshot LUNs (1011387) | VMware KB

here it say just add the datastores again....

so far so bad... I can do this only for 3 out of 4 datastore my "IntelSSDR1data" is not showing up in the list to add.. the adaptec raidtool say all my 4 arrays are good and online

[root@lowpoweresxi:~] esxcli storage vmfs snapshot list

564888b6-dad30975-b86a-001e67c0eb6f

   Volume Name: SamsungR5data

   VMFS UUID: 564888b6-dad30975-b86a-001e67c0eb6f

   Can mount: true

   Reason for un-mountability:

   Can resignature: true

   Reason for non-resignaturability:

   Unresolved Extent Count: 1

5621369e-ce7f03a6-0c14-001e67c0eb6f

   Volume Name: IntelSSDR1boot

   VMFS UUID: 5621369e-ce7f03a6-0c14-001e67c0eb6f

   Can mount: true

   Reason for un-mountability:

   Can resignature: true

   Reason for non-resignaturability:

   Unresolved Extent Count: 1

5636599a-ec393a50-e673-001e67c0eb6f

   Volume Name: HitachiR6data

   VMFS UUID: 5636599a-ec393a50-e673-001e67c0eb6f

   Can mount: true

   Reason for un-mountability:

   Can resignature: true

   Reason for non-resignaturability:

   Unresolved Extent Count: 1

[root@lowpoweresxi:~] esxcli storage vmfs snapshot mount -l "IntelSSDR1boot"

[root@lowpoweresxi:~] esxcli storage vmfs snapshot mount -l "HitachiR6data"

[root@lowpoweresxi:~] esxcli storage vmfs snapshot mount -l "SamsungR5data"

[root@lowpoweresxi:~]

can someone assist to get this up and running again?

Thanks

ASD

[ThompsG]

Hi and welcome to the community!

Not sure I am going to be much help but I'll try to get you going until continuum swings by

From what I gather you have been able to persistently mount 3 of the 4 volumes by running the esxcli storage vmfs snapshot mount command. When running the list command you don't get the 4th volume. Can you confirm how the VMFS volumes were configured before the firmware upgrade, i.e. were they individual VMFS stores or was a VMFS volume made up of extents?

If you could also run esxcli storage vmfs extent list and post the results that would be appreciated.

Now I'm not recommending that you try what it listed in the following post, take a look at this and see if it matches your particular problem: Please help: extent missing from datastore

Kind regards.

[AuZASD]

Hi ThompsG,

Thanks for your reply.

I dot think I have done something with extends but I would not burn my hand for this.. like always in the IT... everything is only 99% sure

I'm also not sure if I was able to mount them persistently..last reboot they are again gone but I could mount them again without troubles. for the moment I'm more scared about not seeing the 4th disk at all

[root@lowpoweresxi:~] esxcli storage vmfs extent list

Volume Name     VMFS UUID                            Extent Number  Device Name           Partition

--------------  -----------------------------------  -------------  --------------------  ---------

IntelSSDR1boot  5621369e-ce7f03a6-0c14-001e67c0eb6f              0  eui.afd9954900d00000          3

HitachiR6data   5636599a-ec393a50-e673-001e67c0eb6f              0  eui.b0655a3500d00000          1

SamsungR5data   564888b6-dad30975-b86a-001e67c0eb6f              0  eui.3069235000d00000          1

[root@lowpoweresxi:~]

I also checked with gparted bootCD.. the disk is there I see my 100G partition so it looks like only esx for some reason dont like it

logs:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz-WHVvmcmQeQWR1VVNnbEFXWXM/view?usp=sharing

I also tried with esx boot usb stick but this also show me only 3 disks +usbstick and my 2nd SSD datastore is not visible

Regards

ASD

[AuZASD · Accepted solution]

Hi,

I got feedback from adaptec. they just ask if i can try this driver

http://storage.microsemi.com/en-us/speed/raid/aac/linux/aacraid_vmware_drivers_1_2_1-52011_cert_tgz....

and its working. the download page say its for 8series controllers and i have 71605 ... but i see all datastores. no mounting issues

Regards

ASD