Rescan vCenter environment

[yrrah2010]

Within the Veeam console > Backup Infrastructure > Manager servers > vCenter you can rescan the environment (Util.VolumesHostDiscover) and there's an register key to change this interval instead of every 24 hours to more or less hours.
But i want to schedule this task at 17:00 every day with powershell there's an option Rescan-VBREntity how can i use this with rescanning an vCenter environment?
I want to use this because we're reinstalling ESXi host and the UUID changes, when Veeam hasn't done an rescan the backups are failing.

[Dima P.]

Hi yrrah2010,
If I understood correctly, this should do the trick: Get-VBRServer -Type VC | Rescan-VBREntity

[yrrah2010]

It wont work when testing but the command is not available is it an v8 feature?

[Dima P.]

I've looked across the previous PS guide and unfortunately can’t find any mentioning of the Rescan-VBREntity cmdlet. It might be added only in v8 (which was used to test the said script from my end).

[veremin]

The said commandlet has been added in version 8. Try the following script and see whether it meets your expectations:

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$Server = Get-VBRServer -Name "Name of your VC"
Rescan-VBREntity -Entity $Server

Thanks.

[scottcarr]

Where in the registry is the change made to rescan more frequently? I have a customer that is using VMware DRS quite extensively, and has backup jobs failing due to "Object cannot be created" errors.