Rescan XenServer Storage Repository

Objective

Suppose that we have included a new item to our Xenserver’s storage repository such as the newly downloaded ISO images. XenServer would not list this item immediately and thus this requires a manual action to include this new item into XenServer’s storage repository list. The objective is to rescan XenServer’s storage repository thus make all new items available for use.

Requirements

Administrative Local or Remote command line access to XenServer is required to complete this task.

Difficulty

EASY

Instructions

Obtain storage UUID

First, we need to obtain UUID of the XenServer’s storage repository we would like to re-scan. To do this run xe sr-list command. Example:

# xe sr-list
uuid ( RO)                : 132b9e6a-1798-bfcb-fb79-37be7ee8bf93
          name-label ( RW): Removable storage
    name-description ( RW): 
                host ( RO): xenserver
                type ( RO): udev
        content-type ( RO): disk


uuid ( RO)                : 970317f9-3187-b5e0-1ea5-16666fdf3348
          name-label ( RW): ISO_IMAGES_LOCAL
    name-description ( RW): 
                host ( RO): xenserver
                type ( RO): iso
        content-type ( RO): iso


uuid ( RO)                : 01533e0e-6c17-36fa-c987-2d29f355ef6e
          name-label ( RW): XenServer Tools
    name-description ( RW): XenServer Tools ISOs
                host ( RO): xenserver
                type ( RO): iso
        content-type ( RO): iso


uuid ( RO)                : bdafe018-617d-5c49-6488-c81c01d40f21
          name-label ( RW): Local storage
    name-description ( RW): 
                host ( RO): xenserver
                type ( RO): ext
        content-type ( RO): user


uuid ( RO)                : 9ea646ec-2795-a579-4668-e0f779402ca6
          name-label ( RW): DVD drives
    name-description ( RW): Physical DVD drives
                host ( RO): xenserver
                type ( RO): udev
        content-type ( RO): iso

The name of XenServer’s storage repository we would like to re-scan is ISO_IMAGES_LOCAL and its UUID reads 970317f9-3187-b5e0-1ea5-16666fdf3348

Re-scan XenServer’s storage repository

Now, that we have obtained the UUID of the XenServer’s storage repository we would like to re-scan, we use xe sr-scan to re-scan/refresh its content:

# xe sr-scan uuid=970317f9-3187-b5e0-1ea5-16666fdf3348

List XenServer’s storage repository content

After re-rescan our new items should be included within repository’s content. For example, to list all ISO repositories run:

# xe cd-list

to list all virtual disks run:

# xe vdi-list

How to refresh XenServer’s storage repository to include newly added items