Hello,
A customer of mine has four esxi hosts connected to SAN and boot from it, one of these hosts had some hardware failures and what I am going to illustrate happens also after replacing the faulty parts with new ones (HBA failures):
- all of the attached datastores, from the SAN are not detected as datastores, they are all detected as devices only, but they are working fine on the other three hosts, if we try to add datastores the only available option is to format the devices, so we used the following command to add the datastores forcibly.
esxcfg-volume -M <the name of the datastore>
after adding the datastores everything works fine, but, if the host is rebooted, all of the datastores are gone again.
What can we do instead of re-installing the ESXi again?
Thanks,