Re-Mounting Missing ESXi Datastore after iSCSI Failure

When an ESXi host occasionally becomes disconnected from a LUN, it can be a little frustrating to fix. Once the LUNs are recognized by ESXi, sometimes you will find that a datastore is missing. I’m partially posting this as a way to archive the fix for myself, but I hope it helps you too.

The fix:

• Enable SSH on the host
• SSH into the host
• Run esxcfg-volume -l without the quotes. You will see something like the following:
• Note the VMFS UUID/label. We want the label, which is iSCSI-DSA on my host
• Run esxcfg-volume -M iSCSI-DSA to mount the volume persistently, or esxcfg-volume -m iSCSI-DSA to mount it temporarily.
• Disable SSH on your host

Hope that helped!