[CentOS] getting a CentOS6 VM on VMware ESXi platform to recognize a new disk device

Wed Nov 4 16:05:58 UTC 2015
Boris Epstein <borepstein at gmail.com>

On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>
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 Billings <billings at negate.org>
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Jonathan,

Thanks, good point. I do have VMware tools running on the VM, though.

Boris.