Missing Extents in VMFS Volume

[MIAMI_deVICE]

Hi,

i am experiencing a problem with one of my VMFS volumes. The Volume was created out of 4 250GB Extents. I use a ISCSI Storage and every

Extent has its own LUN. After the creation of a addidtional LUN, something got crashed with my existing VMFS.

Now my ESX detects the VMFS with only one LUN and the other 3 LUNS are missing.

I could add them via "ADD Storage" - but that would reformat them and i will loose my Data.

After researches i found a way to recover a VMFS Bootloader information, but i don't know if this is also possible with Extents?

The LVM resignature option is also not working, because there are no Snapshot LUNs found.

fdsik -lu shows the following:

Disk /dev/sda: 149.3 GB, 149384331264 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 18161 cylinders, total 291766272 sectors

Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System

/dev/sda1 * 63 208844 104391 83 Linux

/dev/sda2 208845 10442249 5116702+ 83 Linux

/dev/sda3 10442250 286358624 137958187+ fb Unknown

/dev/sda4 286358625 291756464 2698920 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)

/dev/sda5 286358688 287467109 554211 82 Linux swap

/dev/sda6 287467173 291547619 2040223+ 83 Linux

/dev/sda7 291547683 291756464 104391 fc Unknown

Disk /dev/sdb: 268.4 GB, 268435456000 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 32635 cylinders, total 524288000 sectors

Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System

/dev/sdb1 128 524281274 262140573+ fb Unknown

Disk /dev/sdc: 268.4 GB, 268435456000 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 32635 cylinders, total 524288000 sectors

Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System

/dev/sdc1 128 524281274 262140573+ fb Unknown

Disk /dev/sdd: 268.4 GB, 268435456000 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 32635 cylinders, total 524288000 sectors

Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System

/dev/sdd1 128 524281274 262140573+ fb Unknown

Disk /dev/sde: 268.4 GB, 268435456000 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 32635 cylinders, total 524288000 sectors

Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System

/dev/sde1 128 524281274 262140573+ fb Unknown

Disk /dev/sdf: 2147.4 GB, 2147483648000 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 261083 cylinders, total 4194304000 sectors

Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System

/dev/sdf1 128 -100668902 2097149133+ fb Unknown

Please help! You are my last chance to get all my Data back!

[AndreTheGiant]

Open a call to VMware.

I do not know a documented procedure to add and extend without loose data (on the extent partition).

Andre

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[MIAMI_deVICE]

Just to make that clear: I don't want to add AND Extend - ich want to RE-Apply a missing Extent to a VMFS Volume!

I already opened a call (SR 1382195561) - i missed the phone call of the VMware Tech because i was n a meeting -

wrote him a mail with further details and a timeframe when he can get me on the phone - but no reaction from

from VMware since days....bad support here.

[bsoima]

Hi !

Did you managed to resolve this issue ? I'm having a similar issue :

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/244623?tstart=0

Thanks