sjw7 0 · ID: 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
antihrist2002 2 · ID: 2 Posted January 5, 2016 In ESXi you have 3 datastore? One for the each physical disk? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sjw7 0 · ID: 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
antihrist2002 2 · ID: 4 Posted January 6, 2016 solved? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sjw7 0 · ID: 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
antihrist2002 2 · ID: 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
