Server Administrator Storage Management 8.3 User’s Guide

Rescanning To Update Storage Configuration Changes

The Rescan task scans the storage device attached to the connectors on the controller (channels or ports) to verify the currently connected devices or to recognize devices that have been added to or removed from the connectors. When you, rescan a controller object, all storage devices attached to the controller are rescanned. Performing a rescan causes the controller to recognize changes in the storage configuration, such as adding or removing physical disks from a virtual disk or changing a RAID level.

You can rescan a controller object to:

• View new disks attached to the controller.
• Enable the operating system to recognize a virtual disk.
• Enable Storage Management to display a new virtual disk.
• Allow the virtual disk to use the additional space after is it expanded.
• Update the status of an offline disk.
• Update information in a clustered configuration after a failover of cluster resources.

  NOTE: To view the new physical disk, click the system name displayed at the top of the left pane, or select View > Refresh from the menu bar on the browser.