ESXi 6.7 - iSCSI software adapter status is offline

Juan Mulford

7 years ago

In This Article:

Probelm:

After rebooting ESXi 6.5 host (later updated to 6.7), you are unable to scan datastores, and you notice that the iSCSI Software Adapter status is Offline.

I tried:

Disable and enable the adapter from CLI and web client.
Reboot the ESXi.
Update ESXi 6.5 to ESXi 6.7

Solution:

The solution is simple, Unbind and bind back the VMK ports from the iSCSI Software Adapter.

@ESXi host

Go to Storage / Adapters / “vmhba64” / Configure iSCSI

Select VMkernel NIC, and Remove port binding. Then, add the VMkernel NIC again.