http://brandonhutchinson.com/mediawiki/index.php5?title=Hot-add_of_VMware_virtual_disks_in_RHEL&action=history&feed=atom 2013-05-18T17:57:04Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.11.0rc1 http://brandonhutchinson.com/mediawiki/index.php5?title=Hot-add_of_VMware_virtual_disks_in_RHEL&diff=1232&oldid=prev 2008-06-11T22:08:30Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: white; color:black;"> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 22:08, 11 June 2008</td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 11:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 11:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* The new virtual disks now appear.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* The new virtual disks now appear.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> # '''lsscsi'''</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> # '''lsscsi'''</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> # lsscsi</div></td><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> [0:0:0:0] disk VMware Virtual disk 1.0 /dev/sda</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> [0:0:0:0] disk VMware Virtual disk 1.0 /dev/sda</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> [0:0:1:0] disk VMware Virtual disk 1.0 /dev/sdb</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> [0:0:1:0] disk VMware Virtual disk 1.0 /dev/sdb</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: white; color:black;"> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 22:07, 11 June 2008</td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 17:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 17:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> [0:0:3:0] disk VMware Virtual disk 1.0 /dev/sdd</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> [0:0:3:0] disk VMware Virtual disk 1.0 /dev/sdd</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* <del style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Partition </del>('''fdisk'''), create file systems ('''mkfs'''), label file systems ('''e2label'''), and <del style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">add the </del>file systems to '''/etc/fstab''' as appropriate.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* <ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">You may now partition the disks </ins>('''fdisk'''), create file systems ('''mkfs'''), label file systems ('''e2label'''), and <ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'''mount''' and </ins>file systems to '''/etc/fstab''' as appropriate.</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p>New page: In this example, I add two 20G virtual disks to a RHEL 5 x64 VM and get the disks recognized by the OS without a reboot. * List current disks on the virtual SCSI bus. # '''lsscsi''' [0:...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>In this example, I add two 20G virtual disks to a RHEL 5 x64 VM and get the disks recognized by the OS without a reboot.<br /> <br /> * List current disks on the virtual SCSI bus.<br /> # '''lsscsi'''<br /> [0:0:0:0] disk VMware Virtual disk 1.0 /dev/sda<br /> [0:0:1:0] disk VMware Virtual disk 1.0 /dev/sdb<br /> <br /> * Re-scan the SCSI bus.<br /> # '''echo &quot;- - -&quot; &gt; /sys/class/scsi_host/host0/scan'''<br /> <br /> * The new virtual disks now appear.<br /> # '''lsscsi'''<br /> # lsscsi<br /> [0:0:0:0] disk VMware Virtual disk 1.0 /dev/sda<br /> [0:0:1:0] disk VMware Virtual disk 1.0 /dev/sdb<br /> [0:0:2:0] disk VMware Virtual disk 1.0 /dev/sdc<br /> [0:0:3:0] disk VMware Virtual disk 1.0 /dev/sdd<br /> <br /> * Partition ('''fdisk'''), create file systems ('''mkfs'''), label file systems ('''e2label'''), and add the file systems to '''/etc/fstab''' as appropriate.</div>

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