Identifying storage devices and LUNs
The vSphere host storage troubleshooting requires you to use vSphere command-line utilities to detect a particular disk correctly. Part of troubleshooting also requires your skills to correctly identify connected LUNs to vSphere hosts. Let's view some commands that can be handy in your toolbox to identify the connected disks correctly:
esxcli storage core device list naa.6b8ca3a0f2ab980019ffea2907f89b62 Display Name: Local DELL Disk (naa.6b8ca3a0f2ab980019ffea2907f89b62) Has Settable Display Name: true Size: 190208 Device Type: Direct-Access Multipath Plugin: NMP Devfs Path: /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6b8ca3a0f2ab980019ffea2907f89b62 Vendor: DELL Model: PERC H710P Revision: 3.13 SCSI Level: 5 Is Pseudo: false Status: on Is RDM Capable: false Is Local: true Is Removable: false Is SSD: false Is Offline: false Is Perennially Reserved: false Queue Full Sample Size: 0 Queue Full Threshold: 0 Thin...