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

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

Boris Epstein wrote:
> Hello Julius,
>
> Thanks - but it doesn't seem to work.
>
> I installed sg3_utils and ran
> #scsi-rescan
>
> but that seemed to have done nothing for some reason.
>
My turn for a dumb question: from not paying a lot of attention to this
thread, the answer isn't clear to me: has the *host* recognized the disk?
If not, the guest's not going to see it.

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