Mastering PowerCLI

Configuring Fibre Channel storage

To add Fibre Channel (FC) storage, we first get a list of LUNs added to the host. To get a list, we can use the Get-ScsiLun cmdlet. The format is as follows:

PS C:\> Get-ScsiLun -VmHost Esxi1.lab.com | Select CanonicalName
CanonicalName
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naa.60060e801660c500000160c500000107
naa.60060e801660c500000160c500000108
naa.60060e801660c500000160c500000109

Once we get a list of the attached LUNs and identify the particular LUN that we want to add to the host, we create a new datastore using the New-Datastore cmdlet:

PS C:\> New-Datastore -Name SAN-1 -VMHost Esxi1.lab.com -Path naa.60060e801660c500000160c500000109 -Vmfs

This will create a new VMFS datastore with the name SAN-1. If we rescan all the HBAs, then ...