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.

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.