Hello,
I had two Poweredge 2900 strictely idendical. The first one stopped to work so I put all disks in the second machine.
4 drives are connected to perc 6/i
When I use Ctrl-R in Bios I see disks and volume.
The issue is on Virtual Disk 2.
As you can see it's a 6TB Raid5.
In VSphere I added Main and System Databank with Add Disk / lun option. It did'nt ask me to format. Disks was mounted properly
If I choose same option for the big one with VMFS 5, I can select the Virtual disk but I have a Warning : Disk will be formatted AND I DON'T WANT
If I select NAS I don't know how setup the disk.
This disk must be mapped directely to a VM.
Could you help me ?
I need those data.
Thanks for your help
Best regards
I FOUND THE SOLUTION !!!
in this video : How to Mount Physical Hard Drives in VMWare vSphere Hypervisor - ESXi 5.5 - SATA - YouTube
My ass is saved ![]()
THANKS TO Andrew Q Power and all of you...
Best regards ![]()
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Please run esxcfg-volume -l and report any output.
Regards,
Joerg
Hello,
I did it, but it shown nothing
With esxcli storage core device list, I found my disk...
naa.6001e4f03b4b9700ff0000760746b64b
Display Name: Local DELL Disk (naa.6001e4f03b4b9700ff0000760746b64b)
Has Settable Display Name: true
Size: 69376
Device Type: Direct-Access
Multipath Plugin: NMP
Devfs Path: /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6001e4f03b4b9700ff0000760746b64b
Vendor: DELL
Model: PERC 6/i
Revision: 1.22
SCSI Level: 5
Is Pseudo: false
Status: on
Is RDM Capable: false
Is Local: true
Is Removable: false
Is SSD: false
Is Offline: false
Is Perennially Reserved: false
Queue Full Sample Size: 0
Queue Full Threshold: 0
Thin Provisioning Status: unknown
Attached Filters:
VAAI Status: unsupported
Other UIDs: vml.02000000006001e4f03b4b9700ff0000760746b64b504552432036
Is Local SAS Device: false
Is Boot USB Device: false
No of outstanding IOs with competing worlds: 32
Another idea ?
Thanks
Please run
partedUtil getptbl "/vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6001e4f03b4b9700ff0000760746b64b"
to find out how the partitions on this LUN look like.
André
Hello
Thanks for your help.
Here the result :
your advice ?
Thanks
Sorry, I mentioned the wrong device. Please run the command on the 6TB device "naa.6001.....9605" that's shown in your initial post.
André
Here the result:
Is it good ?
Thanks
In my previous setup, the whole disk was mapped directely to one of my VM.
Honestly, It was a long time ago (time for me to move from my flat to my house and build the datacenter room) I don't remember options I selected.
In my previous setup, the whole disk was mapped directely to one of my VM.
In this case it looks like the disk has been been mapped to a Linux VM as a RDM!?
So do not try to create a datastore on that disk!!!
Please see whether the disk is available as an RDM in the Linux VM's add disk wizard.
André
I FOUND THE SOLUTION !!!
in this video : How to Mount Physical Hard Drives in VMWare vSphere Hypervisor - ESXi 5.5 - SATA - YouTube
My ass is saved ![]()
THANKS TO Andrew Q Power and all of you...
Best regards ![]()
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