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July 22nd, 2008 00:00

Check HLU (Host LUN Number) of the LUN. I can imagine that if the address is the same, ESX is confused. Tried a rescan on ESX yet ?

I'm pretty sure it's an ESX thing, since the host hasn't changed in Navisphere.

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July 22nd, 2008 02:00

Also be sure that the ESX servers do not see the LUN at one time (rescan) and then allocate the LUN.
I had recently a problem when deleting a LUN and adding another LUN. I had to do in two steps.

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July 22nd, 2008 03:00

Your ESX was confused ;)

In 2 steps is indeed better. For example: remove it, rescan and add the new one.
Or: add the new one with a different HLU and remove the old one and rescan, then change the HLU and rescan

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July 22nd, 2008 05:00

True! And it was very curious because the new LUN seemed to be correctly seen and with the correct size. But when creating a VMFS partition into it, then the problem began on one node (the others node were OK).

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July 22nd, 2008 06:00

Or simply pull it from one SG first, do a rescan on your host and then put it into another SG and do a new rescan on your host. You don't need engineering mode for that.

July 22nd, 2008 06:00

If you move a LUN to another Storage group the "Host ID" will change to 0. this will make the ESX server not see it. You have to make a note of it and change it when you move it in Engineering mode.

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July 22nd, 2008 08:00

Thanks guys,

Next time I'll follow those steps, the problem was that after the removal the ESX server recognize the LUN as a snapshot so we follow this WMware steps:
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=9453805

Thanks again for the help guys!! :-)
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