How to prevent Virtual Storage Console from generating discovery tasks in vCenter
Applies to
Virtual Storage Console (VSC)
Description
Virtual Storage Console triggers a discovery in the following ways:
- Immediately after VSC service startup
- Daily scheduled discovery (by default at 6 AM local time)
- Automatic discovery whenever there is a datastore related event in the vSphere event logs
The following vCenter events will result in triggering a VSC discovery:
// Datastore events
vim.event.DatastoreCapacityIncreasedEvent
vim.event.DatastoreDestroyedEvent
vim.event.DatastoreDuplicatedEvent
vim.event.DatastoreRenamedEvent
// Host events
vim.event.DatastoreDiscoveredEvent
vim.event.DatastorePrincipalConfigured
vim.event.DatastoreRemovedOnHostEvent
vim.event.DatastoreRenamedOnHostEvent
vim.event.LocalDatastoreCreatedEvent
vim.event.NASDatastoreCreatedEvent
vim.event.NoDatastoresConfiguredEvent
vim.event.VMFSDatastoreCreatedEvent
vim.event.VMFSDatastoreExpandedEvent
vim.event.VMFSDatastoreExtendedEvent
When VSC triggers a discovery, the following tasks are generated in the vCenter task pane:
- NetApp Storage Discovery
- NetApp Host Discovery