SCSI:4509: Cannot find a path to device vmhba1:0:1 in a good state. Trying path vmhba1:0:1

[KenD1892]

Hello,

our server give error for 1 week now:

SCSI:4509: Cannot find a path to device vmhba1:0:1 in a good state. Trying path vmhba1:0:1

We have alredy tried updating ESX 3.5 patch 2 to patch 3 => no result !

I am realy an VMWARE noob, our specialist is on holiday !http://communities.vmware.com/images/emoticons/sad.gif!

from other threads i have done these commands:

esxcfg-mpath -l

fdisk -l /dev/sda

esxcfg-rescan vmhba1

i can't see any errors witch these commands

please help me !

[Texiwill]

Hello,

CHeck your SAN logs. IN effect it is failing over from one path to another. Your SAN could be forcing this to happen.

Best regards,

Edward L. Haletky

VMware Communities User Moderator

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