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You're reading from VMware vSphere 6.5 Cookbook Over 140 task-oriented recipes to install, configure, manage, and orchestrate various VMware vSphere 6.5 components

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2018

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781787127418

Length 574 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Tools

vSphere

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (3):

Abhilash G B

Meyenburg

Rajendran

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Title Page

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Contributors

Preface

1. Upgrading to vSphere 6.5 FREE CHAPTER

2. Greenfield Deployment of vSphere 6.5

3. Using vSphere Host Profiles

4. Using ESXi Image Builder

5. Using vSphere Auto Deploy

6. Using vSphere Standard Switches

7. Using vSphere Distributed Switches

8. Creating and Managing VMFS Datastore

9. Managing Access to the iSCSI and NFS Storage

10. Storage IO Control, Storage DRS, and Profile Driven Storage

11. Creating and Managing Virtual Machines

12. Configuring vSphere 6.5 High Availability

13. Configuring vSphere DRS, DPM, and VMware EVC

14. Upgrading and Patching using vSphere Update Manager

15. Using vSphere Certificate Manager Utility

16. Using vSphere Management Assistant

17. Performance Monitoring in a vSphere Environment

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Re-mounting a VMFS datastore

A previously unmounted VMFS datastore can be re-mounted to the ESXi host. Doing so will make the datastore available for I/O operations.

Getting ready

Make sure the LUN backing the volume is presented to the ESXi hosts. Issue a rescan on the storage adapters to discover the LUN.

How to do it...

The following procedure will help mount a VMFS datastore to the ESXi host:

Log in to the vCenter Server using the vSphere web client and use the key combination Ctrl + Alt + 2 to switch to the Host and Clusters view.

Select an ESXi host, navigate to Configure | Storage Devices, select the LUN corresponding to the unmounted datastore and click on the icon
to attach the LUN:

The Recent Tasks pane should list an Attach SCSI LUN task complete successfully.
Now that you have re-attached the LUN, switch to the datastore view using the key combination Ctrl + Alt + 4.
The unmounted datastore will appear as inactive. Right-click on it and selectMount Datastore...: