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

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:
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>> On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 05:39:59PM +0200, Eero Volotinen wrote:
>>> I think, this is possible with scsi disks
>>>
>>>
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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,
>
> Thanks, good point. I do have VMware tools running on the VM, though.
>
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was the controller you added the virtual disk to an IDE or scsi controller?

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> was the controller you added the virtual disk to an IDE or scsi controller?
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It was a SCSI controller.

Boris.

It should work fine. What esxi version you are using?

Eero
4.11.2015 6.27 ip. "Boris Epstein" <borepstein at gmail.com>
kirjoitti:
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> > was the controller you added the virtual disk to an IDE or scsi
> controller?
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> It was a SCSI controller.
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Am 04.11.2015 um 17:26 schrieb Boris Epstein:
> It was a SCSI controller.
>
>
It usually works very nice here,
Have you added only the disk or by accident another scsi controller?
This happens (you probably know) if you select another bus while 
creating the disc.

VG Rainer