Hot-replace fibre switch

[Trygve Henriksen]

What's the port staus on the switch?
(Right-click on the ports while in the web administration interface)

[Michael Vaarning]

Did you find a solution to this problem?

I seem to experiencing the same issues.

Environment:

ESXi 4.1 update 1
vCenter 4.1 update 1

C7000 Enclosure

HP B-series 8/24c SAN Switch BladeSystem c-Class
Firmware 6.4.1b

QLogic QMH2562 8Gb FC HBA


If you found a solution, I would be very glad to hear about it.

[Michael Vaarning · Accepted solution]

We researched the issue together with experts from BladeTeam, and found that the HBA didn't log back into the SAN switch, after being disconnected from the Brocade switch.

However when we forced the HBA to run at 4GB/s it did login. But at 8GB/s or auto negotiating the HBA was only able to login when the bladeserver was restarted.

We updated the qla2xxx driver on each ESXi host to 841.k1.16.2-1vmw and that solved the issue for us.

[Joshua Small_2]

That's great news Michael. We put this issue on the backburner ourselves once the servers were live.

I'll assume a VMware upgrade will come out with the required driver upgrade built in - can you link exactly the download you used to correct it for me?

[Devan LV]

Thanks Michael. I've been working on the same issue and was glad to hear other people were experiencing this. I updated my builds with the driver you mentioned and this has fixed my issue as well.

I downloaded the driver from the qlogic site which links to the VMware site.

http://support.qlogic.com/support/oem_product_detail_vmware.asp