CentOS - Nov 2015 - getting a CentOS6 VM on VMware ESXi platform to recognize a new disk device

On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 05:39:59PM +0200, Eero Volotinen
wrote:
> I think, this is possible with scsi disks
> 
>
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/vmware-add-a-new-hard-disk-without-rebooting-guest.html
While I believe that this URL has technically correct advice, it's
basically doing a subset of the commands in the scsi-rescan script in
the sg3_utils package.

I wonder if you need to be running the vmware tools for the kernel to
detect new devices?

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Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>

On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Jonathan Billings <billings at
negate.org>
wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 05:39:59PM +0200, Eero Volotinen wrote:
> > I think, this is possible with scsi disks
> >
> >
>
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/vmware-add-a-new-hard-disk-without-rebooting-guest.html
>
> While I believe that this URL has technically correct advice, it's
> basically doing a subset of the commands in the scsi-rescan script in
> the sg3_utils package.
>
> I wonder if you need to be running the vmware tools for the kernel to
> detect new devices?
>
> --
> Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>
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Jonathan,

Thanks, good point. I do have VMware tools running on the VM, though.

Boris.

On 11/04/2015 11:05 AM, Boris Epstein wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Jonathan Billings <billings at
negate.org>
> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 05:39:59PM +0200, Eero Volotinen wrote:
>>> I think, this is possible with scsi disks
>>>
>>>
>>
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/vmware-add-a-new-hard-disk-without-rebooting-guest.html
>>
>> While I believe that this URL has technically correct advice, it's
>> basically doing a subset of the commands in the scsi-rescan script in
>> the sg3_utils package.
>>
>> I wonder if you need to be running the vmware tools for the kernel to
>> detect new devices?
>>
>> --
>> Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>
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>> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
>>
> Jonathan,
>
> Thanks, good point. I do have VMware tools running on the VM, though.
>
> Boris.
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was the controller you added the virtual disk to an IDE or scsi controller?

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