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RAID 5 / Perc 6/i Datastore not found after transfert to new motherboard

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.

VirtualDisk2.jpg

VirtualDisk2D.jpg

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

VirtualDisk2VSPhere01.jpg

VirtualDisk2VSPhere02.jpg

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


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LaurentJ75012
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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 Smiley Wink
THANKS TO Andrew Q Power and all of you...

Best regards Smiley Happy

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IRIX201110141
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Please run esxcfg-volume -l and report any output.

Regards,
Joerg

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LaurentJ75012
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Hello,

I did it, but it shown nothing

esxcfg.jpg

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 ?


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a_p_
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Please run

partedUtil getptbl "/vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6001e4f03b4b9700ff0000760746b64b"

to find out how the partitions on this LUN look like.


André

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LaurentJ75012
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Hello

Thanks for your help.

Here the result :

PartedUtil.jpg

your advice ?


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a_p_
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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

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LaurentJ75012
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Here the result:

PartedUtil2.jpg

Is it good ?

Thanks

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LaurentJ75012
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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.

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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

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LaurentJ75012
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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 Smiley Wink
THANKS TO Andrew Q Power and all of you...

Best regards Smiley Happy

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