Veritas NetBackup™ Appliance Administrator's Guide

To scan the storage devices

1. Log on to the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu.
2. Go to the Manage > Storage menu by using the following command:

   Main > Manage > Storage

   The appliance displays all the sub-tasks in the storage menu.

3. Enter the Scan command to scan the storage devices.

   For 52xx appliances, the connected devices are scanned and the following output is displayed:

   Storage> Scan
   - [Info] Refreshing the storage devices...
   - [Info] Succeeded.
   
   NOTE: If you run the 'Manage->Storage->Show Disk' command and the device information does not appear in the output, 
   run the 'Manage->Storage->Scan' command to import and refresh the device information. If the device information still does not 
   appear, restart the appliance to refresh the device information.

   For 5330 appliances, the connected devices are scanned and the following output may be displayed:

   Storage> Scan
   - [Info] Performing sanity check on disks and partitions...
            (5 mins approx)
   - [Info] The scan operation can take up to 15 minutes to complete.
   - [Info] Refreshing the storage devices...
   - [Info] Created 14 new disks (RAID groups) on External Storage.
   - [Info] Succeeded.
   
   - [Info] The new disks are being initialized. The disk initialization 
   happens in the background and may take up to 56 hours depending on the 
   system load. You can continue to use the appliance during this time. 
   However, if one or more of the new disks are used by partitions during 
   the disk initialization process, the performance of backup and restore 
   operations on the specific disks degrades by up to 30%.
   
   NOTE: If you run the 'Manage->Storage->Show Disk' command and the device 
   information does not appear in the output, run the 'Manage->Storage->Scan'
   to import and refresh the device information. If the device information 
   still does not appear, restart the appliance to refresh the device 
   information.