Saturday, April 19, 2014

How to fix broken VMFS partition?

I had a need of more storage space in my lab. The redundancy was not important so I changed RAID configuration of local disk from RAID 1 to RAID 0. After this change the old VMFS partition left on the disk volume. That was the reason I have seen just half of all disk space when I was trying to create new datastore. Another half was still used by old VMFS partition. You can ssh to ESXi host end check disk partition by partedUtil command. 

 ~ # partedUtil get /dev/disks/naa.690b11c0034974001ae597300bc5b3aa  
 Error: The backup GPT table is not at the end of the disk, as it should be. This might mean that another operating system believes the disk is smaller. Fix, by moving the backup to the end (and removing the old backup)? This will also fix the last usable sector as per the new size. diskSize (1169686528) AlternateLBA (584843263) LastUsableLBA (584843230)  
 Warning: Not all of the space available to /dev/disks/naa.690b11c0034974001ae597300bc5b3aa appears to be used, you can fix the GPT to use all of the space (an extra 584843264 blocks) or continue with the current setting? This will also move the backup table at the end if is is not at the end already. diskSize (1169686528) AlternateLBA (584843263) LastUsableLBA (584843230) NewLastUsableLBA (1169686494)  
 72809 255 63 1169686528  
 1 2048 584843230 0 0  

Old datastore didn't contain any data so I had no problem to try fix command option by following command.

 ~ # partedUtil fix /dev/disks/naa.690b11c0034974001ae597300bc5b3aa  

When I checked disk partition on disk device I get  following output

 ~ # partedUtil get /dev/disks/naa.690b11c0034974001ae597300bc5b3aa  
 72809 255 63 1169686528  

... and then I was able to create datastore on whole disk.




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