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Vmware Esxi command line option to view HBA link status

VMWare Hypervisor supports command line option to view the status of HBA , which can be executed on Esxi SSH command line

Sample command line option as below

[root@localhost:~] esxcli storage core adapter list
HBA Name  Driver      Link State  UID                                   Capabilities         Description
--------  ----------  ----------  ------------------------------------  -------------------  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
vmhba0    lsi_mr3     link-n/a    sas.5d094660913ec600                                       (0000:18:00.0) Avago (LSI) PERC H730P Mini
vmhba1    vmw_ahci    link-n/a    sata.vmhba1                                                (0000:00:11.5) Intel Corporation Lewisburg SATA AHCI Controller
vmhba2    vmw_ahci    link-n/a    sata.vmhba2                                                (0000:00:17.0) Intel Corporation Lewisburg SATA AHCI Controller
vmhba3    qlnativefc  link-up     fc.2000f4e9d452277c:2100f4e9d452277c  Second Level Lun ID  (0000:3b:00.0) QLogic Corp ISP2532-based 8Gb Fibre Channel to PCI Express HBA
vmhba4    qlnativefc  link-down     fc.2000f4e9d452277d:2100f4e9d452277d  Second Level Lun ID  (0000:3b:00.1) QLogic Corp ISP2532-based 8Gb Fibre Channel to PCI Express HBA

Vmware Esxi command line option to view HBA link status

 

Field Link State value indicates the current status of the physical link connected to external device.  Value link-n/a indicates there is no physical cable connected. Value link-up indicates that physical link is up .  Value link-down indicates that cable is connected but the link is still not up with the external device which could be due to reasons such as cable fault , remote port is not activated.


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