Hello,
We have recently upgraded our Vmware infrastructure to 4.1. We have moved our 12 hosts and the VMs to vSphere Client 4.1 and so far 3 of our hosts are up to 4.1, the rest will be done over the week ahead.
Everything is working fine and having no issues.
Looking more into it I noticed something under Configuration/Storage Adapters. We have 2 PCI Express HBA cards listed there for each host.
When we click on Vmhba2 then paths the status is all Active (green)
When we click on Vmhba1 then paths the status should say standby but coming back as dead
I have tried to find anything out I can on Google but having no such luck.
So I have turned again to VMware Communities site for help.
I have attached screenshots of it
If you need any other information please let me know
(hope any of it makes sense)
Thanks.
Austin.
Try rescan all under the configuration --> storage tab
Sometime the vcenter paths doesn't reflect the current state. I have seen this before. After rescanning, if all things are configured correctly (best to check SAN Switch zoning, connectivity status,...) you shoudl get back your path.
Just to confirm this, can you run
esxcfg-mpath -l | grep -i State| grep -i dead
you shouldn't see any dead path, if you see then you are seeing a real problem.
Then you have to go back and see the end to end connectivity status.
Are you connecting to a SAN Switch? Maybe a bad GBIC? You may want to talk to your Storage folks to figure out what's going on. I don't believe this is an ESX(i) issue
Yes we are connecting to a san switch.
I have talked with storage and everything is fine - I was just curious as to anyone seen or had an issue like this
Could it maybe something in the configuration on VI client
Thanks for the response.
I don't believe it's a configuration issue on your end. The paths are being seen, but just as dead. Those are valid targets on your SAN correct? Have you tried rescanning your storage adapters?
the KB article below may or may not be relevant but, just in case
Try rescan all under the configuration --> storage tab
Sometime the vcenter paths doesn't reflect the current state. I have seen this before. After rescanning, if all things are configured correctly (best to check SAN Switch zoning, connectivity status,...) you shoudl get back your path.
Just to confirm this, can you run
esxcfg-mpath -l | grep -i State| grep -i dead
you shouldn't see any dead path, if you see then you are seeing a real problem.
Then you have to go back and see the end to end connectivity status.
Yes, I've seen this before.... This was due to a bad GBIC, as mentioned above..
Checking the loop state in /proc/scsi/qlaxxx/<portnumber> show'ed that the loop was down... So it had to be either the FC cable or a faulty GBIC as nothing had been changed in the fabrics or SAN..
/Rubeck
Thanks for the help guys! Going to be trying it today and see how it turns out
Many thanks