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 vSphere 7.0.3 can't add datastore after raid 5 rebuild

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Thomas Bach posted Jul 14, 2025 09:39 PM

One drive has collaplsed, another one failed while I was in a process of rebuilding first one, and it did bring whole virtual drive group down and made it inaccessible. I still managed to swap bad drives and finished rebuilding it, bringing raid5 online, but old datastore still inaccessible, options like delete/unmount/mount are grayed out, and when I'm trying to Add Storage as new one - during partition configuration wants to wipeout layout and data. Is there any way to add old raid as new datastore without losing all the data?

Hypervisor: VMware ESXi, 7.0.3, 23307199, I'm ready to run esxcli commands for more info.