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ESXi 6.5: mount a datastore that does not automount; esxcfg-volume to the rescue

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/03/29

I had a 1.5 TB SATA disk with VMFS5 created on ESXi 5.1 that would not want to mount on ESXi 6.5 automatically, not even after a rescan, or fresh boot, so I did this:

[root@ESXi-X10SRH-CF:~] esxcfg-volume --help
esxcfg-volume
-l|--list                                List all volumes which have been
                                         detected as snapshots/replicas.
-m|--mount              Mount a snapshot/replica volume, if 
                                         its original copy is not online.
-u|--umount             Umount a snapshot/replica volume.
-r|--resignature        Resignature a snapshot/replica volume.
-M|--persistent-mount   Mount a snapshot/replica volume
                                         persistently, if its original copy is
                                         not online.
-U|--upgrade            Upgrade a VMFS3 volume to VMFS5.
-h|--help                                Show this message.
[root@ESXi-X10SRH-CF:~] esxcfg-volume --list
Scanning for VMFS-3/VMFS-5 host activity (512 bytes/HB, 2048 HBs).
VMFS UUID/label: 59a5306c-a8793061-4a23-001f29022aed/ST1500LM0032D9YH148-backup
Can mount: Yes
Can resignature: Yes
Extent name: naa.5000c5002dba6642:1 range: 0 - 1430527 (MB)

Scanning for VMFS-3/VMFS-5 host activity (512 bytes/HB, 2048 HBs).
VMFS UUID/label: 532cd010-6e8c01d1-45be-001f29022aed/Raid6SATA
Can mount: Yes
Can resignature: Yes
Extent name: naa.600605b00aa054a0ff000021022683ae:1 range: 0 - 1830143 (MB)

[root@ESXi-X10SRH-CF:~] esxcfg-volume -m 532cd010-6e8c01d1-45be-001f29022aed/Raid6SATA
No matching volume 532cd010-6e8c01d1-45be-001f29022aed/Raid6SATA found!
[root@ESXi-X10SRH-CF:~] esxcfg-volume --mount 532cd010-6e8c01d1-45be-001f29022aed
Mounting volume 532cd010-6e8c01d1-45be-001f29022aed

Based on: [WayBack] Mount VMFS Datastore – via GUI or via CLI [Guide] – ESX Virtualization

–jeroen

This entry was posted on 2019/03/29 at 12:00 and is filed under ESXi5.1, ESXi6.5, Power User, Virtualization, VMware, VMware ESXi. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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