# /dev/disk/by-id not populated on vmware

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/dev-disk-by-id-not-populated-on-vmware/28655>\
**Category:** SLES SAP Applications\
**Created:** [September 16, 2016, 11:26am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/dev-disk-by-id-not-populated-on-vmware/28655 "2016-09-16T11:26:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![japeape](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9f8e36/32.png) [@japeape](https://forums.suse.com/u/japeape)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 11:26am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/dev-disk-by-id-not-populated-on-vmware/28655/1 "2016-09-16T11:26:56Z")

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Hi All,

Anyone seen this behavior?

With sles 11 if I set disk.enableUUID=true for a vmware virtual machine then disks would get listed with there scsi-id’s in the /dev/disk/by-id folder.

For some reason the same trick does not work on SLES 12 and I can’t figure out why.

Would appreciate any suggestions.

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**Post date:** [September 21, 2016, 7:30am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/dev-disk-by-id-not-populated-on-vmware/28655/2 "2016-09-21T07:30:32Z")

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**Post date:** [September 22, 2016, 2:44pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/dev-disk-by-id-not-populated-on-vmware/28655/3 "2016-09-22T14:44:57Z")

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On 16/09/16 09:34, japeape wrote:  
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> Anyone seen this behavior?
> 
> With sles 11 if I set disk.enableUUID=true for a vmware virtual machine  
> then disks would get listed with there scsi-id’s in the /dev/disk/by-id  
> folder.
> 
> For some reason the same trick does not work on SLES 12 and I can’t  
> figure out why.
> 
> Would appreciate any suggestions.[/color]

Note that this forum is for issues specifically relating to SUSE Linux  
Enterprise Server for SAP Applications and not a general support forum  
for SLES. To get a proper response you might therefore want to repost in  
one of the other SLES forums - I suggest the Virtualisation one.

## HTH.

Simon  
SUSE Knowledge Partner

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