ESXi 5.5 Readd Datastores After Reboot

tkeel · Fri Dec 06, 2013 10:57 pm

Using the latest beta 2 8.0.6180 build upgrading from v6 each time I reboot my ESXi 5.5 hosts all datastores must be manually readded. There are no issues readding, but this behavior doesn't occur on v6. Is this a known issue, or is there a setting I can check that may be the cause?

Tue Dec 31, 2013 9:32 am

Please try the latest beta build, it should resolve the issue.
http://www.starwindsoftware.com/forums/ ... tml#p20127

tkeel · Thu Jan 02, 2014 8:23 pm

The issue persists with build 8.0.6312. Here's a screen capture showing what happens

microfoundry · Sun Jan 05, 2014 12:36 pm

I had the same issue on with my ESX5.1 environment with 8.0.6180

Mon Jan 20, 2014 9:51 am

Please re-download the beta build, check it and let us know if the issue persists.

tkeel · Mon Jan 20, 2014 11:18 pm

The issue persists under build 8.0.6345.

Mon Jan 20, 2014 11:54 pm

Strange... we checked it in our testlab for HA and ImageFile datastores as well as for physical and virtual RDMs.

Am I right saying that your steps to reproduce the issue are similar to the following ones:
1) install v6, create HA or ImageFile devices, connect them via ESX initiators, create datastores, create several VMs, install OS.
2) Restart ESXs. After restart all datastores are present.
3) Update the first StarWind node to v8, sync, update the second StarWind node
4) Restart ESXs. The datastores disappeared.

If yes, please install wireshark, capture the network traffic for steps 2 and 4 when ESX connects the targets, zip and send us those logs.
Thank you for your help!