rescanning virtual machines from powershell

[maverick964_uk]

We have veeam 6.5.
Does anyone know the powershell command to perform storage rediscovery?

Normally in the GUI, you go to "virtual machines", right click "vmware vsphere" and click rescan.
I want to be able to do this from the command line....

thanks

[veremin]

Hi, Mike. It seems that there is no such a cmdlet, at least, not that I’m aware of.

Also, could you elaborate on what your specific goal is? Are you’re trying to perform something with newly-added datastore that stays invisible to PS snap-in until the rescan takes place?

Thanks.

[maverick964_uk]

thats interesting....

we have had some issues with the infrastructure therefore we wanted to run a rescan just before backup starts.
Would be a cmdlet to add....

[veremin]

The remark regarding newly-added datastore was nothing but an assumption, since I was trying to understand your particular goal, etc.

From my perspective , even without rescanning there are good chances that backup/replication won’t fail, unless there have been dramatic infrastructure changes that resulted in MorefID changes or absence of certain VMs, etc.

Anyway, thanks for the heads-up; much appreciated.

[maverick964_uk]

many thanks and I appreciate the reply.

It would be good to have a cmdlet to rescan the storage....
Is this something we can request as an enhancement?

[Vitaliy S.]

Yes, you can. These forums are always monitored for potential features for the next versions.

[maverick964_uk]

thanks. Would be good to get this feature added...