Post ESXi upgrade to 8.0.2, VMFS datastores are not listed.

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

Post ESXi upgrade to 8.0.2, storage devices are not visible though the QLogic HBA adapters "Online". VMFS datastores are missing after ESXi upgrade.

Environment

VMware ESXi 8.0.2 build-23825572.

V5030 SAN storage system

Cause

After the ESXi upgrade, QLOGIC cards were running driver 5.4.82.1-1OEM.800.1.0.20613240 and do not support NVME.

Module ql2xnvmesupport is not supported for ESXi 8.0.2

Resolution

Disable NVMe in the HBA driver (qlnativefc) using below command 

esxcfg-module -s 'ql2xnvmesupport=0' qlnativefc

OR

Engage Array vendor and validate the OS running on the storage controller supports NVME.

Note:- To check the current qlnativefc config : esxcfg-module -g qlnativefc

Duplicate HBA (SCSI and NVME) adapters are detected with the same node name and port name when using the qlnativefc drivers.

Additional Information

Before ESXi upgrade to 8.0.2 build-23825572, NVMe was not in use.