How can disable hba card from esxcli or vsphere

[baber]

DEar all

hi

i have 2 hba card on my esxi server but just one of them is usefull and i want disable one of them from esxi command line

i know there is a command for disable nic card now how can disable one of my hba card?

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[luxrajah]

You might be better off disabling it in BIOS. esxcli command may end up disabling both HBA if it's not handled correctly. You can go in to BIOS and under PCI devices, you can disable this and that will be better for ESXi boot as well.

[yunya09]

Disable hba card is dangerous ，before you execute ,you should confirmed clear.

example:  if you want disable vmhba4

login esxi with root

~ # esxcli storage core path list |grep -C 6  vmhba4 |grep UID

   UID: fc.20000024ff59407a:21000024ff59407a-fc.5000144047605366:50001442a0536601-naa.6000144000000010705366d9d122ef47

   UID: fc.20000024ff59407a:21000024ff59407a-fc.5000144047605366:50001442a0536601-naa.6000144000000010705366d9d122ef42

   UID: fc.20000024ff59407a:21000024ff59407a-fc.500014404770559f:50001442b0559f01-naa.6000144000000010705366d9d122ef47

   UID: fc.20000024ff59407a:21000024ff59407a-fc.500014404770559f:50001442b0559f01-naa.6000144000000010705366d9d122ef42

   UID: fc.20000024ff59407a:21000024ff59407a-fc.500014404760559f:50001442a0559f01-naa.6000144000000010705366d9d122ef47

   UID: fc.20000024ff59407a:21000024ff59407a-fc.500014404760559f:50001442a0559f01-naa.6000144000000010705366d9d122ef42

   UID: fc.20000024ff59407a:21000024ff59407a-fc.5000144047705366:50001442b0536601-naa.6000144000000010705366d9d122ef47

   UID: fc.20000024ff59407a:21000024ff59407a-fc.5000144047705366:50001442b0536601-naa.6000144000000010705366d9d122ef42

~ # esxcli storage core path  set --state=off -p fc.20000024ff59407a:21000024ff59407a-fc.5000144047705366:50001442b0536601-naa.6000144000000010705366d9d122ef42

do this one by one  ,untill up 8 UID value excute .Command execution without restart,effective immediately.

PS: if want turn back , --sate=active .

[SeeSiteCanCom]

Just use a PowerShell Script to Deactivate or Acticate all PATHs from a specific FC HBA:

# Targethostname from the vCenter ESXi Name
$TargetHost = "HOSTNAME"

# Target FC HBA Name, like "vmhba4"
$TargetHBA = "FCHBANAME"

# TargetPathState of all the LUNs/Paths from the specific HBA ("Off" or "active")
$TargetState = "off"

# Targetpath for the summaryfile, which will be created afterwords
$TargetFilePath = "J:\Documents\"

$AnfrageDatum = Get-Date -format yyyyMMdd
$esxcli = Get-VMHost -Name $TargetHost | Get-EsxCli -V2

$AllPaths = $esxcli.storage.core.path.list.invoke() | where {$_.Adapter -eq $TargetHBA} | Select-Object -Property Adapter, State, UID | where {$_.State -ne $TargetState}

ForEach ($LunPath in $AllPaths)
{
IF ($esxcli.storage.core.path.set.invoke(@{state=$TargetState;path=$LunPath.UID}))
{
Write-Host "Es wird vom HBA=$TargetHBA der Pfad=$($LunPath.UID) auf den Status=$TargetState gesetzt"
}
Start-Sleep -Seconds 2
}

$Ergebnis = $esxcli.storage.core.path.list.invoke() | where {$_.Adapter -eq $TargetHBA} | Select-Object -Property Adapter, State, UID
$Ergebnis
$Ergebnis | Export-Csv -Path ($TargetFilePath + $AnfrageDatum + "-Show-$TargetHBA-PathState.csv") -UseCulture

[omerfcolakoglu]

Hello

You can turn it off with the following command.

In the "vmhbaX" X section, write the relevant ID of which path you want to close.

for i in `localcli storage core path list | grep "Runtime Name: vmhbaX" | awk '{print $NF}'`; do localcli storage core path set --state off --path $i; done