Lost connectivity to the device mpx.vmhba32 ERROR

May 11, 2016 Bilal Ahmed 0

So I had this wonderful error happen to me recently. I am in the process of migrating the Management IPs from one network to another on all the hosts in the environment. It is part of a bigger plan to migrate everything including the vCenter components to a new IP range ( I am not looking forward to that esp since this is a 5.1 environment!). I did that and updated DNS, flushed the DNS caches on my machine and on the PRTG probes etc. The host came back up fine, but when it rejoined vCenter it had this wonderful error message: Lost connectivity to the device mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0 backing the boot filesystem /vmfs/devices/disk/mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0. As a result, host configuration changes will […]