We have a 2TB LUN presented to 13 ESX hosts (various versions of 3.0.0, 3.0.1 and 3.0.2). When I do a vdf -h on all the hosts I get the same (presumably) correct result:
Server: esx---
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/vmfs/volumes/472fbcaf-7eaff269-7b30-0017a4770000
2.0T 1.4T 580G 71% /vmfs/volumes/472fbcaf-7eaff269-7b30-0017a4770000
The problem is, when I look at the same datastore information in the VC client via VC server it is reported as empty (2TB free) on all hosts. The really strange thing is, when I go to Configuration -> Storage on all the hosts and select the datastore, in the Details section on all it says 2TB capacity, 710MB used, 2TB free, which just doesn't add up.
If I connect my VC client directly to the hosts I get different results again, two report accurate info (matches what vdf tells me) but the others do not. Four report the datastore empty (well, 710MB used, 2TB free - which matches what VC server sees) the rest report various states of free, none of which match anything else.
Any clues as to what's happening here? I've tried Refreshing the storage view in VC server and also with VC directly on the hosts - makes no difference. I'm pretty sure the datastore was formatted on a freshly installed 3.0.2 (update1) host - would that make a difference? The other 3.0.2 hosts were updated to Update 1 via esxupdate.
