On the IBM Storage Manager, I have 1 Hostgroup that contains the 4 ESXi hosts, based on their iSCSI initiators:
Furthermore there is a "Host-to-Logical Drive mapping" that makes it easy add a new LUN and grant access to the hosts defined in the Hostgroup.
I can't see how this could be the problem, all the ESXi hosts have access to the first three LUN's I created so why shouldn't they on the fourth?
As I wrote in the first post, the ESXi servers can see the LUN when you choose "Add datastore" and they format it in VMFS.
Here is what what happens:
-After "Rescan HBAs", the hosts finds the newly created LUN and multiple paths to it.
-"Add Datastore"finds the LUN and creates and formats it in VMFS
-The LUN is added as a datastore:
As you can see from this screenshot, the datastore is discovered and formatted in VMFS by one of my hosts, and the other hosts immediately discover the LUN afterwards. So the LUN is newly formatted and should be empty and ready for use.
Immediately after this, the datastore becomes inaccessible.
The only difference between the "old" LUNs and the new one, is that the new is formatted in VMFS 3.46 and the other ones were created back with vpshere4.0 and use VMFS 3.3
When I try to create a new folder in the datastore:
(vim.fault.FileNotFound) {
dynamicType = <unset>,
faultCause = (vmodl.MethodFault) null,
file = "[LUN4] New Folder",
msg = "",
}
Args:
Arg datastorePath:
"[LUN4] New Folder"
Arg searchSpec:
(vim.host.DatastoreBrowser.SearchSpec) {
dynamicType = <unset>,
query = (vim.host.DatastoreBrowser.Query) [
(vim.host.DatastoreBrowser.FolderQuery) {
dynamicType = <unset>,
},
(vim.host.DatastoreBrowser.FloppyImageQuery) {
dynamicType = <unset>,
},
(vim.host.DatastoreBrowser.IsoImageQuery) {
dynamicType = <unset>,
},
(vim.host.DatastoreBrowser.VmConfigQuery) {
dynamicType = <unset>,
filter = (vim.host.DatastoreBrowser.VmConfigQuery.Filter) null,
details = (vim.host.DatastoreBrowser.VmConfigQuery.Details) null,
},
(vim.host.DatastoreBrowser.TemplateVmConfigQuery) {
dynamicType = <unset>,
filter = (vim.host.DatastoreBrowser.VmConfigQuery.Filter) null,
details = (vim.host.DatastoreBrowser.VmConfigQuery.Details) null,
},
(vim.host.DatastoreBrowser.VmLogQuery) {
dynamicType = <unset>,
},
(vim.host.DatastoreBrowser.VmNvramQuery) {
dynamicType = <unset>,
},
(vim.host.DatastoreBrowser.VmSnapshotQuery) {
dynamicType = <unset>,
},
(vim.host.DatastoreBrowser.VmDiskQuery) {
dynamicType = <unset>,
filter = (vim.host.DatastoreBrowser.VmDiskQuery.Filter) null,
details = (vim.host.DatastoreBrowser.VmDiskQuery.Details) {
dynamicType = <unset>,
diskType = false,
capacityKb = true,
hardwareVersion = false,
controllerType = <unset>,
diskExtents = <unset>,
thin = <unset>,
},
},
(vim.host.DatastoreBrowser.Query) {
dynamicType = <unset>,
}
],
details = (vim.host.DatastoreBrowser.FileInfo.Details) {
dynamicType = <unset>,
fileType = true,
fileSize = true,
modification = true,
fileOwner = true,
},
searchCaseInsensitive = true,
sortFoldersFirst = true,
