SCSI addresses under VMware are not consistent and sometimes change when a RHEL guest is rebooted

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Issue

  • The Host:Channel:Target:Lun numbers do not align and behave as I would expect when I add a new disk to a VMware guest.
  • After rebooting my RHEL guest, the SCSI addressing is not persistent, sometimes it changes

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 as a VMware guest
  • VMware server

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