A previously detached storage device can be re-attached and the VMFS volume on it can be mounted again. If the LUN was unmapped using the storage system, then it needs to be mapped to the host before you proceed.
Attaching storage devices and remounting VMFS datastores
How to do it...
The following procedure will help you to mount a VMFS datastore from a reattached device on the ESXi host:
- Connect to vCenter Server using the HTML5 client.
- Go to the Configure | Storage devices tab of the ESXi host that the datastore was unmounted from.
- Select the detached device and click Attach:
- The Recent Tasks pane should show that an Attach SCSI LUN task has completed successfully:
- Once done, switch to the Storage inventory, right...