Scanning Storage
Adapters
You must perform a
rescan operation each time you reconfigure your storage setup.
You can scan by using the
, the
vicfg-rescan
vCLI
command, or the
esxcli storage
core adapter rescan
command.
- esxcli storage core adapter rescansupports the following additional options.
- -a|--all or -A|--adapter=<string>– Scan all adapters or a specified adapter.
- -S|--skip-claim– Skip claiming of new devices by the appropriate multipath plug-in.
- -F|--skip-fs-scan– Skip filesystem scan.
- -t|--type– Specify the type of scan to perform. The command either scans for all changes (all) or for added, deleted, or updated adapters (add, delete, update).
- vicfg-rescansupports only a simple rescan operation on a specified adapter.
Rescanning a storage
adapter with ESXCLI
The following command scans a
specific adapter and skips the filesystem scan that is performed by default.
esxcli <conn_options> storage core adapter rescan --adapter=vmhba33 --skip-claim
The command returns an
indication of success or failure, but no detailed information.
Rescanning a storage
adapter with vicfg-rescan
Run
vicfg-rescan
,
specifying the adapter name.
vicfg-rescan <conn_options> vmhba1
The command returns an
indication of success or failure, but no detailed information.