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ESXi 6.7 and 6.5 will not see increased iSCSI volume

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Working on upgrade planning for move from vSphere 5.5 to 6.7.  Using iSCSI storage (on a Pure Storage array.)  Discovered that ESXi 6.5/7 will not recognize a volume increase until the host is restarted.  Not an ideal workaround.  I don't see this behavior on ESXi 6.0, or 5.5, both which recognize the increase following a rescan of the storage adapter.  Has anyone else run into this?  Found a better workaround?

 

Steps to reproduce:

 

  1. Install 6.5.0 Update 2 (Build 8294253) or 6.7.0 Update 2 (Build 13006603)
  2. Install iSCSI Adapter and connect to storage
  3. Confirm volume is shown in StorageDevices and the datastore (if applicable) under StorageDatastore
  4. On Pure Storage array, increase size of the volume (say 500 GB to 1 TB)
  5. On ESXi 6.5 host, StorageDevicesRescan
  6. Observe no change in the "Capacity" column

 

Workaround:

  • Restart host → StorageDevices→ observe "Capacity" column now reflects size increase
  • Disconnect NICs used for storage → reconnect NICs →  StorageDevices→ observe "Capacity" column now reflects size increase

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