Datastores are showing Inaccessible

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

After replacing the backend core switch, ESXI hosts are unable to connect to NFS storage.

Environment

ESXi 7.X

ESXi 8.X

Cause

•   No network connectivity  between esxi host and storage
•   Network ping is not working between esxi host IP and storage IP with  vmkping command

Resolution

• suggested to troubleshooting at network level.
• Command used to identify vmkernel  is esxcfg-vmknic -l
• command use to check connectivity is vmkping -I vmk# ##.##.##.##
• Please refer kb 323107