topic Re: VMWARE ESX Server - Scanning for the new disks in Operating System - Linux

VMWARE ESX Server - Scanning for the new disks

Sundar_7 — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:39:28 GMT

Folks,

New to VMWARE & Linux. We have a VMWARE ESX 3.0 server that hosts number of virtual machines running RH 3.x and 4.x

In one of those virtual machines, I had to create couple of virtual disks. But I was unable to get the system see them without rebooting.

I would like to know if there is anyway to make the system recognize the new virtual disks without rebooting.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks,

Sundar.

Re: VMWARE ESX Server - Scanning for the new disks

Ivan Ferreira — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:07:03 GMT

Try this:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/dsichelp/ds8000ic/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.storage.ssic.help.doc/f2c_vmesxddd_1m5c8q.html

Re: VMWARE ESX Server - Scanning for the new disks

Jarle Bjorgeengen — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:34:46 GMT

Or just do it from the web-gui

Re: VMWARE ESX Server - Scanning for the new disks

Uwe Zessin — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 07:48:39 GMT

It sounds like you are talking of mapping a .VMDK file to a running VM, not mapping a SAN disk to the server.

Well, I can't offer a solution, but I have seen this working on Windows 2003 VMs. On the other hand, I currently see that it does not work reliably on ESX V3.0.1 with patch ESX-6921836.

It is not important for me and I don't have time to troubleshout, but maybe this helps you somehow.