Hi All, hoping for a little guidance... (hopefully this is in the correct group - apologies if not)
We have a vCenter with multiple hosts. Many of these hosts connected to a Storage Server (RHEL6) via iSCSI. The storage server had (/has) a 3.4TB RAID 6 partition that was the iSCSI target. Something bad happened on the array (lost a disk) and somewhere along the way, it seems the partition may have been lost!
I've been reading as much as I can about the recovery processes, but a little unclear on some elements and could use some guidance please - as a non-linux expert!
1) Given this is iSCSI, the target partition (on the RedHat server) - the VMWare ESXi tools are or are not relevant? i.e. partedUtil etc. are for use with disks attached to the actual ESXi host itself?
2) I'm currently running a testdisk analyze on the RedHat server and it's finding lots of partition data, such as:
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Warning: number of sectors per track mismatches 63 (NTFS) != 32 (HD)
NTFS 43727 165 4 48842 32 3 41734144
Warning: number of sectors per track mismatches 63 (NTFS) != 32 (HD)
NTFS 48842 32 3 53956 154 2 41734144
ext3 63315 83 11 67080 8 10 30720000
ext3 76499 5 27 80263 185 26 30720000
ext3 88835 4 19 92599 184 18 30720000
ext4 92686 207 3 92812 77 2 1024000
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Given there's quite a lot and also a mix, is this actually the partition information of the GUESTS that were on the iSCSI device?
On the RedHat server, the parition appears in fdisk -l, but not in cat /proc/partitions - should it? In fdisk, it also shows as a GPT disk - which I believe is correct.
Thanks in advance for any tips.
Cheers,
Anthony..