Cannot resize VMFS DataStore in ESXi 5.1

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  I have a problem with the CF 1 logical unit number which can be seen as a device through several paths on all 10 hosts in a cluster, but it appear as a data store VMFS on 6 of the hosts. Other LUNS of the same Bay appear correctly on all hosts. 10 guests see the LUN with the same LUN ID and all hosts are identical regarding the version of ESXi (5.0 Update 2), HBA and firmware models.

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  4f5e5cbb-a87cd2c6-86e9-d8d385f98034
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  The UUID VMFS above matches the UUID VMFS seen on 6 guests who can see the VMFS data store.

  When I try to use 'Add storage', the device appears with a lambel VMFS: LUN101_SAS2(head). I don't know why (head) was added to the label of VMFS. Oscreen n the following signature to keep 'existing' and "Assign a new signature" options are grayed out. The only option is "Disc Format. I need to keep the existing signature because it run virtual machines that have their files .vmx and hard on this LUN.

  Would the fact that I have virtual machines running on this LUN, I cannot choose the option to "keep the existing signature?

  I need to Storage vMotion these virtual machines to a different LUN before I add the VMFS datastore to 4 guests?

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  Try the following command

  #esxcfg - volume - l

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  To constantly increase the volume, use esxcfg-volume - M followed of the UUID or volume name

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  one

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  Mary!

  I have a virtual machine with two partitions. Partition for the system (IDE) and (SCSI) partition for data. The partition of SCSI has there own underlying the LUN on a storage. LUN capacity was 50 GB where the VMFS data store uses almost the full ability of LUN (49, 75GB). So I developed the LUN on the storage of 60 GB and now I want to extend the data on this LUN VMFS store and add a few more GB. But although I can see the raw capacity (60 GB) of the LUN in storage/properties for this VMFS datastore I can't expad the datastore to VMFS himself. When I click on expand I get no device/LUN to use.

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  And my main goal is to expand the data store VMFS.

  It's exactly what I got. When you log on to an ESXi host (using the vSphere Client and the root user), you will have the same storage Wizard dialog box as in the screen shot you posted before. After logging in, go to 'Configuration'-> 'Storage', select the datatstore VMFS, you want to develop and run the wizard.

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  Hey guys,.

  I need help pretty bad here.

  I have several data stores which are almost VMFS 5 except the one that is 3 VMFS. Today, I turned off my box to check something in the bios (no changes made), but when the system back upward, the VMFS 3 data store was unreadable.

  I followed a tutorial in line and together try to fix the partition table. However, I put the GPT partition table when I think the VMFS 3 store was MBR.

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  1 partedUtil getUsableSectors /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.50015179590f8c3f

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  2 partedUtil setptbl /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.50015179590f8c3f TPG ' 1 2048 4123456 AA31E02A400F11DB9590000C2911D1B8 0.

  Then I made the foregoing according to an on-line tutorial and forgetting that my data store was VMFS3 and MBR.

  3 partedUtil getUsableSectors /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.50015179590f8c3f

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  4 partedUtil setptbl /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.50015179590f8c3f TPG ' 1 2048 312581774 AA31E02A400F11DB9590000C2911D1B8 0.

  Then I part 4 - following the tutorial

  Clearly, this was the wrong thing to do for my drive. Can anyone help solve this?

  Here is the disc. It shows the disk mounted, but ESXi is not able to find the existing volume and mount the virtual machines on it.

  Also, here's the KB, I followed: VMware KB: Re-create a missing partition of VMFS datastore in VMware vSphere 5.0/5.1/5.5

  

  More information (after http://virtuallyhyper.com/2012/09/recreating-vmfs-partitions-using-hexdump/):

  ~ # hexdump - C - n 512-/vmfs/devices/disks/naa.50015179590f8c3f

  00000000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |... |

  *

  000001 b 0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1 d 9 a 00 00 |... |

  000001c 0 01 00 FF fe ff ff 01 00 00 00 af 9th 12 00 00 a1 |... |

  000001d 0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |... |

  *

  000001f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 55 aa |... U. |

  00000200

  ~ # hexdump - C s 65536 - n 512-/vmfs/devices/disks/naa.50015179590f8c3f

  00010000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |... |

  *

  00010200

  ~ # hexdump - C s 1114112 - n 512-/vmfs/devices/disks/naa.50015179590f8c3f

  00110000 0d d0 01 c0 03 00 00 00 11 00 00 00 01 1 a 00 00 |... |

  00110010 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |... |

  00110020 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 43 56 |... CV |

  00110030 50 4f 4e 39 34 38 31 30 31 32 36 31 36 30 41 47 | PO94810126160AGN |

  00110040 20 20 49 4th 54 45 20 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 4 c |  INTEL... |

  00110050 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 82 |... |

  00110060 14 43 25 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 54 02 00 00 53 02 | C%....... T.... S. |

  00110070 00 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 01 00 00 |... |

  00110080 00 00 28 ff 64 4B 02 43 47 97 22 00 e0 ed 0d fe |... (. dk..) CG. » ....|

  00110090 0b 0e 1 c 98 65 d6 7th 6 d 04 00 83 02 3rd b0 4B f0 |... e.m ~... >. K. |

  001100a0 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |... |

  001100b0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 c5 ae 95 01 00 00 |... |

  001100c 0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |... |

  *

  00110200

  ~ # fdisk - read /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.50015179590f8c3f

  ***

  The fdisk command is deprecated: fdisk does not support GPT partitions.  Thank you for using partedUtil

  ***

  Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT

  /Vmfs/devices/disks/naa.50015179590f8c3f disc: 312581808 sectors, 298 M

  Logical sector size: 512

  Identifier (GUID) of disc: 19700107-395f-4915-a262-03dda5266ea5

  Partition table contains up to 128 entries

  First usable sector is 34, last usable area is 312581774

  Starting number (sector) end (sector), Code name of size

  312581774 2048 1 298M 0700

  ~ #

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