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Lost access to volume on ESXi host due to faulty HBA

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Applies to

  • FC LUN
  • Brocade switch
  • Ontap 9.x

Issue

  • FC LUN lost its access on host end due to connectivity issues

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  • IO WQE errors were observed on storge side as below on both the nodes

Mon Aug 21 23:18:43 +0700 [NETxx-02: fct_tpd_work_thread_0: fcp.io.status:debug]: STIO Adapter:5a IO WQE failure, Handle 0x4, Type 8, S_ID: 49xx00, VPI: 3, OX_ID: 892, Status 0x3 Ext_Status 0x16
Mon Aug 21 23:19:34 +0700 [NETxx-02: fct_tpd_work_thread_0: fcp.io.status:debug]: STIO Adapter:1a IO WQE failure, Handle 0x0, Type 8, S_ID: 49xx00, VPI: 3, OX_ID: 887, Status 0x3 Ext_Status 0x16

  • C3 timeout Tx errors were observed on the ISL ports of brocade switch

/fabos/cliexec/porterrshow :
          frames        enc     crc     crc     too     too     bad     enc    disc    link    loss    loss    frjt    fbsy     c3timeout     pcs      uncor
        tx       rx      in     err     g_eof   shrt    long    eof     out    c3      fail    sync    sig                      tx      rx      err     err
  46:    2.1t  558.7g    0       0       0       0       0       0       0     159.6k    5       0      11       0       0     159.5k    0       0     427.4k
  47:    2.1t  558.7g    0       0       0       0       0       0       0     153.9k    6       0      11       0       0     153.9k    0       0       2.0k    

  • Frame timeout detected errors reported under errrdump indicating the frame could not be sent to the ISL port 

2023/06/08-11:39:48, [AN-1014], 184556, FID 128, INFO, ssw-bjb-farm-drc-01a, Frame timeout detected, tx port 46 rx port 0, sid 10001, did 490400, timestamp 2023-06-08 11:39:48 .
2023/06/08-11:39:47, [AN-1014], 184536, FID 128, INFO, ssw-bjb-farm-drc-01a, Frame timeout detected, tx port 46 rx port 0, sid 10001, did 490400, timestamp 2023-06-08 11:39:47 .
2023/06/08-11:41:34, [AN-1014], 184637, FID 128, INFO, ssw-bjb-farm-drc-01a, Frame timeout detected, tx port 47 rx port 0, sid 10001, did 490400, timestamp 2023-06-08 11:41:34

 

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