Scanning Storage Adapters

You must perform a rescan operation each time you reconfigure your storage setup.

You can scan by using the vSphere Client 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).

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.