Re: All paths are dead from one of the vmhba fc adapter...

Hello,

I have seen this situation to be occurring after a maintenance on one of the fabric switches or after the switch is rebooted. forcing a LIP on the affected HBA should be able to bring back the connectivity without rebooting the Host

VMware KB: Forcing a Loop Initialization Primitive reset on Fibre Channel and Ethernet Adapters

VMware KB: Real-time configuration/parameter changes that can be made to the running QLogic or Emulex FC HBA driver …

http://www.van-lieshout.com/2010/01/how-to-force-a-login-on-a-qlogic-hba/

Thanks,

Avinash