Mounting a VMFS datastore
In this recipe you will see how a previously unmounted VMFS datastore can be mounted back to the ESXi host.
How to do it...
The mount operation can be performed from the vSphere Web Client GUI or using the CLI.
Using the vSphere Web Client UI to mount
The following procedure will guide you through the steps required to mount a VMFS volume using the vSphere Web Client:
Use the vSphere Web Client to connect to the vCenter Server.
Navigate to Home | Storage.
With the Datacenter object selected, navigate to Related Objects | Datastores and find the datastore in the unmounted state:
Right-click on the unmounted datastore and navigate to All vCenter Actions | Mount Datastore:
Select the ESXi host to which the volume should be mounted and click on OK to initiate the mount operation:
Verify the Recent Tasks pane to make sure that the mount operations have been successfully completed on all the ESXi hosts that were selected:
Using esxcli to mount an unmounted volume
vSphere esxcli can...
