adding datastore_cluster_powercli

[jvm2016]

Hi Luc ,

i have 6 datastores that i need to add to a cluster of 6 esxi hosts.

are following two commands sufficient to add  VMFS_Datastore_1’ to enitrecluster .

New-Datastore -VMHost "esxi1" -Name ‘VMFS_Datastore_1’ -Path naa.60000xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx36 -vmfs

and then rescan all esxi in cluster to get vmfs_datastore_1 mounted to all 6 esxi in cluster

Get-Cluster -name “YourClusterName” | Get-VMhost | Get-VMHostStorage –RescanAllHBA

[LucD]

Instead of RescanHba I think you need a RescanVmf

New-Datastore -VMHost "esxi1" -Name ‘VMFS_Datastore_1’ -Path naa.60000xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx36 -Vmfs

Get-Cluster -name “YourClusterName” | Get-VMhost | Get-VMHostStorage -RescanVmfs

[jvm2016]

but this will add datastore to all 6 esxihosts .is that correct ?

[LucD]

From my experience, when the LUN is shared, creating it on one ESXi node, it will become visible on all other ESXi nodes in the cluster shortly after that.
I don't even think you need to force the scan

[jvm2016]

i did it the other day using vsphere client and i had to do rescan on other esxi hosts.

however i wil check it again .