MSA Storage
1753401 Members
7117 Online
108792 Solutions
New Discussion

HP EVA P6350 Direct connect to ESXi Host with Brocade 825 HBA

 
tih
Occasional Contributor

HP EVA P6350 Direct connect to ESXi Host with Brocade 825 HBA

Hello, 

I have some problem with direct connection of Brocade 825 HBA at ESXi Host to HP Eva P6350. 
The problem is in paths detection to storage. Sometimes i saw in vSphere client that BR 825 connected with EVA 
at 1st port. There are no any info about connection when i click to the secont port. 
For example when i perform reboot of Esxi host - Then in vSphere client i saw ANOTHER port connected to EVA and 
no info about 1st port. Also i have 3rd situation when I saw 2 port normally connected to EVA: 
1st in Active I/O 
2nd in Active mode. 
So I have misunderstanding why it happens. 
Noticed that I can see two ports connected to Eva(3rd situation) when I not just reboot host, but reboot and also just 
enter in HBA BIOS and exit. A 

HBAs configured in loop mode with BCU. 
In addition: when I enter the HBA bios with CTRL+B I cannot change default P2P mode to Loop. 

I have installed last bios verion v.3.2.3 to HBA, also installed the same version of HBA driver to ESXi. 

Thank you. 
Regards, Egor