Resizing a zpool as a VMware ESXi guest ...

[Garrett Cooper]

> On Oct 16, 2014, at 1:10, Edward Tomasz Napierała <trasz at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> "camcontrol rescan" does not force fetching the updated disk size.
> AFAIK there is no way to do that.  However, this should happen
> automatically, if the "other side" properly sends proper Unit Attention
> after resizing.  No idea why this doesn't happen with VMWare.
> Reboot obviously clears things up.
> 
> [..]

Is open-vm-tools installed?

I ask because if I don't have it installed and the kernel modules loaded, VMware doesn't notify the guest OS of disks being added/removed.

Also, what disk controller are you using?

Cheers.