rescanallhba for FibreChannel SAN

[sa_1722]

Hello,

We have a dev ESX 4.1 box connected to a SAN via Fibre Channel connection. At random times, our LUN link to the SAN keep dropping 'dead' and we have to go to "Configuration" -> "Storage Adapters" -> Controller" click "Rescan all..." manually. I am trying to run this automatically using vSpehere PowerCLI command and keep getting "HostStorageSystem-StorageSystem = False" as attached.

My command was Get-VMhost $MyVMHost | Get-VMHostStorage -RescanAllHba

Can anyone assist?

Thank you in advanced.

[LucD]

Which PowerCLI version are you using ?

Get-PowerCLIVersion

[sa_1722]

Version 5.0.1 build 581491

[LucD]

Then that is the normal output of the Get-VMHostStorage cmdlet.

Did you check with the vSphere Client if the rescan was done ?

[sa_1722]

Yes I did, it does not seem to register the CLI command.

The bottom two was triggered manually. Then I run the following commands on the PowerCLI:

- Connect-VIServer -server <IP_ADD_Here>

- then manually type in user/pass

- $MyVMHost = Get-VMHost -server <IP_ADD_Here>

- Get-VMHostStorage $MyVMHost -RescanAllHba

and then i screen capture the picture above.

[LucD]

Do you connect to a vCenter server or an ESX(i) server ?

[sa_1722]

Hi LucD,

Thank you very much for pointing that I'm looking at the wrong area. I did initially connect using vSphere Client to a vCenter server rather than the esx server itself... that's why i didn't see the message saying the server has done the rescan of the hba.

But now all good.

Thank you.