PowerCLI Reference

Get-ScsiLun

Synopsis

This cmdlet retrieves the SCSI devices available on the vCenter Server system.

Syntax

Get-ScsiLun [[-CanonicalName] <String[]>] [-VmHost] <VMHost[]> [-Key <String[]>] [-LunType <String[]>] [-Server <VIServer[]>] [<CommonParameters>]

Get-ScsiLun -Id <String[]> [-Server <VIServer[]>] [<CommonParameters>]

Get-ScsiLun [[-CanonicalName] <String[]>] [-Hba] <Hba[]> [-Key <String[]>] [-LunType <String[]>] [-Server <VIServer[]>] [<CommonParameters>]

Get-ScsiLun [[-CanonicalName] <String[]>] [-Datastore] <Datastore[]> [-Key <String[]>] [-LunType <String[]>] [-Server <VIServer[]>] [<CommonParameters>]

Related Commands

Online version
Get-ScsiLunPath
Set-ScsiLun
Set-ScsiLunPath

Detailed Description

This cmdlet retrieves the SCSI devices available on the vCenter Server system. Examples of SCSI logical unit objects include disks which may contain file system volumes or parts of volumes for the host or might serve as raw disks to a virtual machine. Other examples include SCSI passthrough devices that can be used by virtual machines. When retrieving ScsiLun objects by Datastore, the cmdlet returns a ScsiLun object for each host connected to the specified datastore. ScsiLun objects can be differed by their VMHost property.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description	Required?	Pipeline Input
CanonicalName	String[]	Specifies the canonical name of the SCSI devices you want to retrieve. An example of a SCSI canonical name for Windows is "vmhba0:0:0:0".	false	false
Datastore	Datastore[]	Specifies the datastores for which you want to retrieve the SCSI devices. This parameter is supported only for VMFS volumes.	true	true (ByValue)
Hba	Hba[]	Specifies the storage adapters for which you want to retrieve the SCSI devices.	true	true (ByValue)
VmHost	VMHost[]	Specifies the hosts from which you want to retrieve the virtual SCSI devices.	true	true (ByValue)
Id	String[]	Specifies the IDs of the SCSI devices that you want to retrieve. Note: When a list of values is specified for the Id parameter, the returned objects would have an ID that matches exactly one of the string values in that list.	true	false
Key	String[]	Specifies the linkable identifiers of the SCSI devices you want to retrieve.	false	false
LunType	String[]	Specifies the type of the SCSI devices you want to retrieve. The following types are valid: cdrom communications disk enclosure mediaChanger opticalDevice printer processor scanner storageArrayController tape unknown worm	false	false
Server	VIServer[]	Specifies the vCenter Server systems on which you want to run the cmdlet. If no value is passed to this parameter, the command runs on the default servers. For more information about default servers, see the description of Connect-VIServer.	false	false

Return Type

Zero or more ScsiLun objects

Notes

Examples

-------------- Example 1 --------------

Get-ScsiLun -VMHost 10.23.123.100 -LunType disk

Retrieves the SCSI devices of "disk" type for the virtual machine host with an IP address 10.23.123.100.

-------------- Example 2 --------------

Get-VMHost | Get-ScsiLun -CanonicalName "naa.*"

Retrieves the SCSI devices with canonical names that starts with "naa." on the provided host.

-------------- Example 3 --------------

$hba = Get-VMHost | Get-VMHostHba -Type ParallelScsi

Get-ScsiLun -Hba $hba -LunType disk

Retrieves the SCSI devices of "disk" type for the specified HBA devices.

-------------- Example 4 --------------

Get-ScsiLun -Datastore Datastore -Key "key-vim.host.ScsiDisk-*"

For the Datastore datastore, retrieves the SCSI devices that have the specified linkable identifiers.