I have an ESXi host, but it does not have local hard disk. It use disks which are shared via fibre channel. Afterthat, I setup passthrough for the fibre channel. After rebooting ESXi host, we cannot find any datastores. And I also cannot remove passthrough setup (after removing and reboot, it's still there). Does anyone know how to fix it?
Cannot remove passthrough setup on ESXi
passthroughvmware-esxivmware-vsphere
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Best Answer
The following best practice prevents this problem from occurring:
The following workaround describes how to force the change from passthrough mode to non-passthrough mode:
Edit the /etc/vmware/esx.conf file by changing the owner of the PCI device from passthru to vmkernel. The following is an example of the necessary edit: Change from: /device/000:02.0/owner = "passthru" Change to: /device/000:02.0/owner = "vmkernel"
Reboot the ESX/ESXi host.