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VMware Host showing frame loss and Brocade switch showing c3timeout TX on port

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Applies to

  • VMware ESXi 6.X
  • VMware ESXi 7.X
  • Brocade Switch

Issue

  • VMware ESXi host HBA port shows incrementing Invalid CRC Count and Invalid TX Word Count.
Adapter: vmhba1
Tx Frames: 2929696924
Rx Frames: 3782738436
Lip Count: 0
Error Frames: 0
Dumped Frames: 0
Link Failure Count: 21
Loss of Signal Count: 1
PrimSeq Protocol Err Count: 0
Invalid Tx Word Count: 524313192
Invalid CRC Count: 294694
Input Requests: 305122439
Output Requests: 299737927
Control Requests: 0
Tue Jan 25 06:42:07 UTC 2022
 
 
  • Brocade shows c3timeouts

    frames      enc   crc    crc    too    too    bad    enc   disc   link   loss   loss   frjt   fbsy  c3timeout    pcs
    tx     rx   in    err    g_eof  shrt   long   eof     out   c3    fail    sync   sig                 tx    rx    err
20: 1.3g 397.0m   0      0      0      0      0      0      0   5.9k   0      0      0      0      0     5.9k   0      0

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