sjw7 Posted January 5, 2016 #1 Posted January 5, 2016 Hi all I am running XPEnology with DSM 5.0 on an old HP Microserver running ESXi 5.1 using virtual disks rather than RDMs. I currently have three disks of 1.5TB each in the disk group but one keeps saying that its not initialized. It worked fine for months but this has happened a couple of times over the past few weeks. I have performed a repair and it all works fine again for a few days and then the disk group goes into a degraded state. It could well be that there is a problem with the physical disk that the vmdk is sat on but the ESXi host isn't reporting any errors with it. I want to try deleting the disk and recreating it within ESXi but need to identify which one it is. I think I know but am reluctant to guess just in case. If this doesn't work I will get another disk for the unit. Does anyone know of a way of identifying which VMDK a disk in XPenology is using? I have looked through the GUI but cannot see anything so I am hoping there is something at the command line level that will give me an ID to trace it with. Many thanks in advance Simon
antihrist2002 Posted January 5, 2016 #2 Posted January 5, 2016 In ESXi you have 3 datastore? One for the each physical disk?
sjw7 Posted January 6, 2016 Author #3 Posted January 6, 2016 Hi Yes I forgot to mention there are three physical disks each with its own datastore. One VMDK on each datastore. Cheers Simon
sjw7 Posted January 8, 2016 Author #5 Posted January 8, 2016 Hi Not yet. I am scouring the forums to see if I can find a command to list the disks to see if I can match them up with those in VMware. Failing that I will take a risk and delete the one I think is causing the problems. I have a backup of the content on another PC so its mainly just cost time and a bit of effort. cheers Simon
antihrist2002 Posted January 8, 2016 #6 Posted January 8, 2016 you have backup - it's very good First go to: Main menu -> Storage Manager -> HDD/SSD and find disk number which was not initialized (not Volume number) In this example - Disk 4. Usually Disk3 in DSM is SCSI(0:0) in ESXi (VM settings), Disk4 is SCSI(0:1) and so on. Go to ESXi, xpenology VM, Edit settings. My fail Disk is 4 so it will be SCSI(0:1) In Disk File you see [750] xpenology/xpenology_1.vmdk. [750] is Datastore Name. Go to host configuration, Storage, mark Datastore name, click properties and you will find physical HDD name and serial number
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