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 rescan
    supports 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-rescan
    supports 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.