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Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Inactive or missing VMware VMFS datastore

Today I came across a situation where one of the shared VMFS datastores in a 4 node ESXi 6.5 cluster was found missing/ inactive after a planned reboot. This post is about the steps I followed to resolve this issue/ re-mount the inactive shared datastore.

On a ESXi node, to list the datastores that are available to mount: esxcfg-volume –l
To mount the available datastore: esxcfg-volume –M <UUID>

Sample screenshot is given below:


Hope it was useful. Cheers!

Reference:
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2108624-missing-datastore-after-upgrade-from-esxi-6-0-to-6-5