Some wizardry: [WayBack] vmkfstools | virtualhobbit.
This includes:
- finding which VMFS partitions are there the hard way
- initialising partitions from known good data
vmkfstools -V
(yes, capital V
is for VMFS rescan, as lowercase v
is for verbose)
Found after reading [WayBack] Datastore not mounted after reboot of ESXi5.5 |VMware Communities
Then found this:
That solved my problem!
# esxcfg-volume --list
Scanning for VMFS-3/VMFS-5 host activity (512 bytes/HB, 2048 HBs).
VMFS UUID/label: 532cd010-6e8c01d1-45be-001f29022aed/Raid6SSD
Can mount: Yes
Can resignature: Yes
Extent name: naa.600605b00aa054a0ff000021022683ae:1 range: 0 - 1830143 (MB)
# esxcfg-volume --mount 532cd010-6e8c01d1-45be-001f29022aed
Mounting volume volume 532cd010-6e8c01d1-45be-001f29022aed
And there it was:
# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
...
VMFS-5 1.7T 1.6T 169.6G 91% /vmfs/volumes/Raid6SSD
...
Note you can mount non-persistent (--mount
) or persistent (--persistent-mount
) by both UUID
and label
, so there are four choices for mounting:
esxcfg-volume --mount UUID
esxcfg-volume --mount label
esxcfg-volume --persistent-mount UUID
esxcfg-volume --persistent-mount label
–jeroen
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