Hi All.
I need your help. Thinksys sr650 direct connections (FC) with Netapp E2724.The SAN partition is not displayed. I can see new ESXi connected to Controller A port 5 and Controller B port 4. In storage end these ports are up. When i run the command "esxcli storage san fc list " --> Error message is : "Port State: BLOCKED".
Actually like this.
- We have 1 SAN and 4 Servers (IBM X3650 direct connection, we do not have the san switch).
- After that, we bought a new server (Lenovo Thinksystem Sr650). We removed an old server and replace it by this new server. Of course, the new server will use the port (SAN) of the old server. On the SAN, we reconnect the hba port of the new server (figure 1+2).
- With old server (IBM x3650) use same port on SAN (of new Server) can connect and use normally (figure 3);
- Working with netapp engineers we have tried all of these options.
Hi Supreet.
- After using your command with vmhba2, I see the port is open state (Have a little hope.. pls see figure 1)
- But using your command with vmhba3, port is still closed.
- I restarted esxi and tried again many times. Now ports 2, 3 are closed (It no longer works. Only works for the first time with vmhba2)
I do not understand why.
.. Next i do so:
- Re-install esxi still that version.
- And run your command (esxcli storage san fc reset -A vmhba2 & esxcli storage san fc reset -A vmhba3)
- Same as previous times... only vmhba2 was open (figure 1).
--> single port open vmhba2 (vmhba3 still closed) not enough to access.
--> When I run your commands again one more time.... all will disappear. Everything goes back to the original (see final image)
----> I can conclude drive FC has problems.
Exactly, that is what even I am saying 
Since the new server has been tried with both 6.7 and 6.0 version (and a various combination of driver/firmware for the HBA), most likely it is not an issue with ESXi. Culprit could be the HBA cards.
Cheers,
Supreet