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jmay
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Determine volume / disk name from naa number

How can I determine the volume / disk name from the naa number?  In multipathing settings is just shows me the eui number.  Thanks for any help!

- John

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handsy
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I ran in to this issue too. In my case it was for NetApp LUNs.

Here's what to do. Right-click the disk and select 'copy identifier to clipboard':

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Browse to http://codebeautify.org/hex-string-converter  , paste the identifier you copied and click Convert:

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The result (the decoded string) will be the serial number of the NetApp LUN. The command 'lun show -v' on the NetApp will show serial numbers.

Hope this helps, but to be honest if you just name your datastores with a proper name you need never concern yourself with naa numbers anyway Smiley Happy