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

Boris Epstein wrote:
> Hello Julius,
>
> Thanks - but it doesn't seem to work.
>
> I installed sg3_utils and ran
> #scsi-rescan
>
> but that seemed to have done nothing for some reason.
>
My turn for a dumb question: from not paying a lot of attention to this
thread, the answer isn't clear to me: has the *host* recognized the disk?
If not, the guest's not going to see it.

      mark

>
>
> My turn for a dumb question: from not paying a lot of attention to this
> thread, the answer isn't clear to me: has the *host* recognized the
disk?
> If not, the guest's not going to see it.
>
>       mark
>
>
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Mark,

IMO your question is not dumb at all. Unfortunately, I don't have an answer
to it.

All I know is, you reboot the VM and it all works as expected.

Cheers,

Boris.

Boris Epstein wrote:
>>
>> My turn for a dumb question: from not paying a lot of attention to this
>> thread, the answer isn't clear to me: has the *host* recognized the
>> disk? If not, the guest's not going to see it.
>
> IMO your question is not dumb at all. Unfortunately, I don't have an
> answer to it.
>
> All I know is, you reboot the VM and it all works as expected.
Ok, if rebooting the VM, and *only* the VM, fixes it in the VM, then the
host - the system the VM's running on - knows about the drive. You see
where I was going with that....

       mark