Hi everyone,
Currently we a running standalone configuration of StarWind Software with iSCSI Datastore on 2 hosts (1 storage host connected to 2 ESXi host via iSCSI)
We faced an issue:
Existing datastores are missing volumes after several reboots, all iSCSI paths are connected and devices is showing properly.
partedUtil getptbl /vmfs/devices/disks/<device-name>
Shows that partition is fine.
However esxcfg-volumes -l shows us nothing. Apparently, datastore is a missing a volume.
We cant browse a datastore and it not appearing in datastores tab.
And the question is how to restore a volume without a data loss? Is there any chance to restore the data from that partition or move it.
Appreciate for any assistance.
Thanks in advance.
What you may try, is to run vmkfstools -V (note: upper-case "-V") to rescan the storage, and see whether any errors/warning show up in the vmkernel.log.
André
Which ESXi version, and build do you currently use.
There have been known issues, see e.g. https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2006858
André
6.7.0 (8169922)
Here is what we got after running commands from your article
vmkfstools -Ph -v1 /vmfs/volumes/Storage3TB-Generic
Could not open /vmfs/volumes/Storage3TB-Generic
Error: vmkfstools failed: vmkernel is not loaded or call not implemented.
OBJLIB-LIB: ObjLib cleanup done.
WORKER: asyncOps=0 maxActiveOps=0 maxPending=0 maxCompleted=0
vmkfstools --configATSOnly 0 /vmfs/devices/disks/eui.ea60be64c267f43d:1
Unable to get attributes of VMFS '/vmfs/volumes/Storage3TB-Generic'
Attempt to configure non-ATS locking mode on '/vmfs/volumes/Storage3TB-Generic': failed.
Error: No such file or directory
Instead of trying different things, which may make things worse, please try to contact continuum. I think he can help you in this case.
André
Since this is a solution specific issue, best bet would be getting in touch with their support department.
It takes some time (about 10-20min) until server can see the new datastore. Perhaps there is some way to update and refresh in less time...