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In case it helps anyone else, I wanted to resurrect this old thread with a me too and some additional information.  In my case, I was working with a copy of 5969303 as a fresh install that doesn't have internet connectivity yet, nor is it hooked to vcenter yet.  I wanted to test that some iSCSI LUN snapshots were replicating successfully from one data center to another, so all I wanted to do was boot this copy of 6.5 5969303, mount the snapshot LUN on the local array, boot a VM.  No matter what I did in the GUI, or CLI, I could not mount the iSCSI LUN.  It would show as a storage device in the web interface, but I could not do anything with it, and the actions only allow me to add a new vmfs datastore which would partition and format it.  The GUI did reflect the correct partition size.  esxcfg-volume -l showed nothing.

I got some internet for this host and updated to 7388607.  Reboot.  esxcfg-volume -l and now it shows as available; used -M and successfully mounted.

Perhaps there's some VMFS versioning issue that affects certain builds?

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