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NPIV-enabled virtual machines fail to create VPORTs when run on ESX/ESXi hosts with Emulex HBAs (1018326)

Last Updated: 2/20/2014Categories: TroubleshootingTotal Views: 13932Language:
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If you power on an NPIV-enabled virtual machine on a host with Emulex Fibre Channel HBAs, the virtual machine might not be able to create a VPORT. Instead, the virtual machine fails back to the RDM path provided by the physical port. If you inspect the VMkernel log file, you can see entries similar to the following:

ScsiNpiv: 1308: Created vport for world 5114, vmhba0, rv 0
ScsiNpiv: 1140: NPIV vport rescan complete, [0:18] (0x41000803bc40) [0x41000cc01150] status=0x0
ScsiScan: 1059: Path 'vmhba139:C0:T1:L18': Vendor: 'DGC ' Model: 'RAID 5 ' Rev: '0326'
ScsiScan: 1062: Path 'vmhba139:C0:T1:L18': Type: 0x0, ANSI rev: 4, TPGS: 0 (none)
ScsiNpiv: 1119: Phys [status=bad0039] does not equal Virt [status=0], NPIV Disabled for this VM
ScsiNpiv: 1140: NPIV vport rescan complete, [1:18] (0x410008045fc0) [0x41000cc01150] status=0x0
ScsiNpiv: 1754: Failed to Create vport for world 5114, vmhba0, rescan failed, status=bad0001
LinScsiLLD: scsi_remove_host: Removing Host Adapter vmhba139

Solution

This happens because for the NPIV-enabled virtual machine, the discovery order on the VPORT should exactly match the discovery order on the host's physical port. With the Emulex HBA, each VPORT independently discovers targets in the SAN by starting its own discovery process. When a response from one or more targets is delayed, the VPORT might discover targets in an order different from that for the physical port. This results in a failure to create the VPORT on a virtual machine.

To resolve this problem, perform the following:

From the vCLI, set the lpfc_discovery_threads=1 configuration option for the lpfc820 driver using the command:

esxcfg-module –s “lpfc_discovery_threads=1” lpfc820

On ESX, save the configuration to the boot image using the command:

esxcfg-boot -b

Note: This step is not applicable for ESXi.

Reboot the host for the changes to take effect.

After the reboot, verify the currently configuration option using the command:

esxcfg-module -g lpfc820

If correctly configured, the output will be similar to:

lpfc820 enabled = 1 options = 'lpfc_discovery_threads=1'

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