ESXi 6.0 showing storage as Normal, Degraded

[jan1981]

Hi,

We need help on our newly setup ESXi server. It appears that the disk status is Normal, Degraded. Anybody who can help on how to change/set this to normal? Or what have we done wrong? We have also reported this to Dell since we are using PowerEdge R640 and they said that iDrac logs indicate that everything is optimal. Your help will be very much appreciated.

[GayathriS]

Its a Remote disk/storage which is expected to have multi path to access so that it can withstand the failure of one oath,

At times if it given only one path there are chances that it shows Degraded , check on the paths available for this disk .

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Gayathri

[Upo001]

This is a local device on the built in LSI SAS controller that falsely stated as remote.

In vCenter, right click on device and tick "Mark as local", and "Degraded" disappears.

[dogdaynoon]

Did you ever get this sorted out? From my very limited understanding, this happens when there is only one path available to the target: What is "Status: degraded" ?

However, I am not sure how to get multiple paths to the target. We have to ports on a network card (physical nic) one port is used for management and network connectivity, the other is used for the direct connected iSCSI device.

I wonder if we put a 10Gb switch between the devices if it would show multiple paths and in turn change the status to normal? See image: