Add a New Hard Disk VMWARE Without Rebooting Guest

It is possible to explicitly add or remove a SCSI device or re-scan an entire SCSI bus without rebooting a running Linux VM guest.

 

1) Add a New Disk To Vm Guest

• First, you need to add a hard disk by visiting vmware hardware settings menu.
  Click on VM > Settings
• Alternatively, press CTRL + D to bring to the settings dialog box.
• Click on Add+ to add new hardware to the guest:
• Select hardware type Hard disk and click on Next.
• Select create a new virtual disk and click on Next.
• Set virtual disk type to SCSI and click on Next
• Set maximum disk size as per your requirements and click on Next
• Finally, set the file location and click on Finish.

 

2) Rescan the SCSI Bus to Add a SCSI Device Without rebooting the VM

A rescan can be issued by typing the following command:
 

echo "- - -" > /sys/class/scsi_host/host#/scan
fdisk -l
tail -f /var/log/message
 

Replace host# with actual value such as host0. You can find the scsi_host value using the following command:
 

# ls /sys/class/scsi_host
 

Output:

host0

Now type the following to send a rescan request:
 

echo "- - -" > /sys/class/scsi_host/host0/scan
fdisk -l
tail -f /var/log/message

 

3) Format a New Disk

You can create partition using fdisk and format it using mkfs.ext3 command:
 

# fdisk /dev/sdc
# mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdc3

 

4) Create a Mount Point And Update /etc/fstab

# mkdir /disk3
 

Open /etc/fstab file, enter:
 

# vi /etc/fstab
 

Append as follows:

/dev/sdc3               /disk3           ext3    defaults        1 2

Save and close the file.

 

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