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:
- Install 6.5.0 Update 2 (Build 8294253) or 6.7.0 Update 2 (Build 13006603)
- Install iSCSI Adapter and connect to storage
- Confirm volume is shown in
Storage
→Devices
and the datastore (if applicable) underStorage
→Datastore
- On Pure Storage array, increase size of the volume (say 500 GB to 1 TB)
- On ESXi 6.5 host,
Storage
→Devices
→Rescan
- Observe no change in the "Capacity" column
Workaround:
- Restart host →
Storage
→Devices
→ observe "Capacity" column now reflects size increase - Disconnect NICs used for storage → reconnect NICs →
Storage
→Devices
→ observe "Capacity" column now reflects size increase