topic Re: Connectivity to this host is lost in MSA Storage

Connectivity to this host is lost

fabrizior — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 20:21:10 GMT

I have one MSA 1060 connected with vsphere 8.01.
Storage was working, but the connection stopped after the host shut down for maintenance. At reboot, the initiator seems not connected to a physical port. Some posts talk about VLAN, but I'm not using VLAN.
The error is shown in the attached image. How to reconnect the port?
I use 2 controllers but only two ports are used: one per controller.

Re: Connectivity to this host is lost

shiva_jr — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 05:38:34 GMT

Hi Fabrizior,
The link1 and link2 may help you to get it resolved.
Regards,
Shiva_JR
Please mark as 'Accepted solution' if my post worked and award the 'Kudos'.

Re: Connectivity to this host is lost

fabrizior — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 09:00:04 GMT

I found my mistake. I don't use chap, the SAN is on a small isolated network, after reboot chap was enabled on the ESXi side.
The problem was that the log didn't display errors relating to authentication.

I didn't realize this and wasted my time and yours.

Re: Connectivity to this host is lost

Sunitha_Mod — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 11:02:19 GMT

Hello @fabrizior,

Great!

We are glad to know you were able to find the solution and we appreciate you for keeping us updated.