Hello,
On one of my esxi5 hosts the local scsi datastore disappeared after a power failure. The host boots fine and partition table looks ok.
When I login with a vphere client the error "The ESXi host does not have persistant storage." shows. On the configuration tab -> hardware -> storage, the device (LSI RAID controller) is vissible, but the datastore is not. A rescan does not find anything.
"esxcfg-volume -l" gives no output at all.
The "fdisk -lu" output:
~ # fdisk -lu
Disk /dev/disks/naa.600605b0019fb01013491a1809654266: 997.9 GB, 997998985216 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 951766 cylinders, total 1949216768 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/disks/naa.600605b0019fb01013491a1809654266p1 8192 1843199 917504 5 Extended
/dev/disks/naa.600605b0019fb01013491a1809654266p2 1843200 10229759 4193280 6 FAT16
/dev/disks/naa.600605b0019fb01013491a1809654266p3 10229760 1949216767 969493504 fb VMFS
/dev/disks/naa.600605b0019fb01013491a1809654266p4 * 32 8191 4080 4 FAT16 <32M
/dev/disks/naa.600605b0019fb01013491a1809654266p5 8224 520191 255984 6 FAT16
/dev/disks/naa.600605b0019fb01013491a1809654266p6 520224 1032191 255984 6 FAT16
/dev/disks/naa.600605b0019fb01013491a1809654266p7 1032224 1257471 112624 fc VMKcore
/dev/disks/naa.600605b0019fb01013491a1809654266p8 1257504 1843199 292848 6 FAT16
Partition table entries are not in disk order
~ #
Attached the logging in vmkernel.log when I do a rescan. (Ignore vmhba33, it's the cd-rom)
When I do the first steps of adding a new datastore there shows the following error in the "current disk layout":
"Either the selected disk already has a VMFS datastore or the host cannot perform a partition table conversion. Select another disk."
I hope this means the datastore is stil on the disk.... !?
Can anyone tell me how to recover the datastore?
Thanks,
Mark