Symptoms:
- Emulex Corporation HP FlexFabric adapters appear offline with one of these devices:
- Emulex OneConnect OCe14000 iSCSI CNA
- Emulex OneConnect OCe11100 10Gb iSCSI Initiator
- Emulex OneConnect OCe11100 iSCSI CNA
- In the /var/log/vmkernel.log file, you see similar to:
2018-03-05T06:03:01.843Z cpu103:1001395041)WARNING: elxnet: elxnet_detectDumpUe:441: [vmnic1] TPE recovery: F/W indicated the UE is not recoverable (=0xd00). Taking normal UE path
2018-03-051T06:03:02.242Z cpu626:1001395026)WARNING: elxnet: elxnet_detectDumpUe:441: [vmnic0] TPE recovery: F/W indicated the UE is not recoverable (=0xd00). Taking normal UE path
- The host is disconnected, fail to ping and SSH
- Checking the serial line logging, find elxnet and elxiscsi report many warning information as follows
2018-03-05T06:34:26.890Z cpu51:2102499)WARNING: elxnet: elxnet_workerThread:2113: [vmnic8] GetStats: MCC cmd timed out. timeout:36
2018-03-05T06:34:26.891Z cpu51:2102499)WARNING: elxnet: elxnet_generateUE:60: [vmnic8] Injecting fatal error for post-mortem dump
2018-03-05T06:34:27.017Z cpu480:2102514)WARNING: elxnet: elxnet_detectDumpUe:345: [vmnic9] UE Detected!!
ue_status_lo=0x0 ue_status_hi=0x1
2018-03-05T06:34:27.017Z cpu480:2102514)WARNING: elxnet: elxnet_detectDumpUe:362: [vmnic9] UE hi: LPCMEMHOST bit set
2018-03-05T06:34:27.265Z cpu580:2102528)WARNING: [8-0:85:00.2] elxiscsi_UeDetected:97 UE Detected: ue_status_lo=0x0 ue_status_hi=0x1
2018-03-05T06:34:27.266Z cpu580:2102528)WARNING: [8-0:85:00.2] elxiscsi_UeDetected:98 UE Detected at 362436074 ms
2018-03-05T06:34:27.266Z cpu580:2102528)WARNING: [8-0:85:00.2] elxiscsi_UeDetected:117 BG_0: UE_HIGH LPCMEMHOST bit set
2018-03-05T06:34:27.266Z cpu580:2102528)WARNING: [8-0:85:00.2] elxiscsi_DetectUe:169 TPE detected: Driver and FW support TPE recovery. Moving to TPE_UE_DETECTED state
Note:The preceding log excerpts are only examples. Date, time and environmental variables may vary depending on your environment.