Re: getting a CentOS6 VM on VMware ESXi platform to recognize a new disk device

[zep <zgreenfelder@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/04/2015 11:05 AM, Boris Epstein wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Jonathan Billings <billings@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 05:39:59PM +0200, Eero Volotinen wrote:
>>> I think, this is possible with scsi disks
>>>
>>>
>> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/vmware-add-a-new-hard-disk-without-rebooting-guest.html
>>
>> While I believe that this URL has technically correct advice, it's
>> basically doing a subset of the commands in the scsi-rescan script in
>> the sg3_utils package.
>>
>> I wonder if you need to be running the vmware tools for the kernel to
>> detect new devices?
>>
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> Jonathan,
>
> Thanks, good point. I do have VMware tools running on the VM, though.
>
> Boris.
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was the controller you added the virtual disk to an IDE or scsi controller?

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