How to detect a disk online which is attached through new controller for a RHEL guest in VMWare ESX 5?
Issue
- How to detect a new disk online which is attached through new controller for a RHEL guest in ESX 5?
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When a new disk is attached, along with a new controller to a RHEL guest vm in ESX5, it does not get detected online.
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The two disks through different controllers looks like as seen in the screenshot below. Pease note 'Virtual Device Node' address for the disks.
- Disk 1 (SCSI 0:0) :
- Disk 2 (SCSI 1:0) :
Disk 2 also adds new controller 'SCSI Controller 1'
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- VMWare ESX 5
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