Forcing a Fabric Login reset on Fibre Channel and FCOE Adapters

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

• This article provides steps to perform a Fabric Login (FLOGI) reset to a Native Fibre Channel (FC) or Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) adapter on ESXi 7.x and 8.x.
• VM running with Raw Device Mapping (RDM) stopped after reboot.

Environment

VMware vSphere ESXi 7.x
VMware vSphere ESXi 8.x

Resolution

To send the Fabric Login reset from the console:

1. Open the console or SSH to the ESXi host.
2. From an SSH session or command line, interface to the ESXi host:
   • For FC, run the command:
     
     # esxcli storage san fc reset -A vmhbaX
      
   • For FCoE, run the command:
     
     # esxcli storage san fcoe reset -A vmhbaX
     
     Where vmhbaX is the adapter on which you are performing the LIP reset.