Scan a recently added virtual disk in a VMWare based Linux server

1. Take an output of the currently available disks

# fdisk -l


2. Scan for the new disk

# echo "- - -" > /sys/class/scsi_host/host0/scan


3. List the available disk to find out the name of newly created disk

# fdisk -l

4. View the messages file for confirmation

# tail -f /var/log/messages