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  • 1.  6.7 U2: wrong WWNs

    Posted Apr 29, 2019 10:14 AM

    Got 2 HP servers with one 2-port FC and one 1-port FC HBA and ESXi shows incorrect WWNs in web GUI.
    Same as here: VMware: Fiber Channel HBA Reports Wrong WWN? | PeteNetLive

    Why is that?

    6.7.0 Update 2 (Build 13006603)

    esxcli storage core adapter list

    HBA Name  Driver      Link State  UID                                   Capabilities         Description

    --------  ----------  ----------  ------------------------------------  -------------------  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    vmhba1    qlnativefc  link-up     fc.5001438028551b81:5001438028551b80  Second Level Lun ID  (0000:11:00.0) QLogic Corp ISP2532-based 8Gb Fibre Channel to PCI Express HBA

    esxcli storage core adapter list

    vmhba2lpfclink-up fc.20000000c9aa0b7a:10000000c9aa0b7a  Second Level Lun ID  (0000:08:00.0) Emulex Corporation Emulex LPe12000 8Gb PCIe Fibre Channel Adapter
    vmhba3lpfclink-up fc.20000000c9aa0b7b:10000000c9aa0b7b  Second Level Lun ID  (0000:08:00.1) Emulex Corporation Emulex LPe12000 8Gb PCIe Fibre Channel Adapter



  • 2.  RE: 6.7 U2: wrong WWNs

    Posted May 09, 2019 09:55 AM

    I´ve got the same Problem with a Fujitsu Server and QLE2692 Cards

    The WWN and WWPN of poth ports are equal and 4 Server shows the same WWN WWPN in the gui.

    On cli everything is fine.



  • 3.  RE: 6.7 U2: wrong WWNs

    Posted May 26, 2020 12:06 AM

    More than one year after your post and i'm facing the exact same problem. web GUI shows wrong WWN and same format as yours (looks like decimal instead of hex) but the esxcli shows the correct one.

    were you able to solve the problem ?



  • 4.  RE: 6.7 U2: wrong WWNs

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted May 26, 2020 01:22 AM

    I found a note in our internal bug tracker suggesting that this might actually be an issue with the way Internet Explorer manages the display of large numbers in Javascript.  Does it work if you try another modern web browser – e.g. Firefox, Chrome, recent versions of Edge (based upon Chrome)?

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    Darius



  • 5.  RE: 6.7 U2: wrong WWNs

    Posted May 26, 2020 01:32 AM

    Thank you for the quick reply, i am using chrome to access 9 esxi hosts in my environment, 8 of them display the correct WWN and only one shows the wrong one.



  • 6.  RE: 6.7 U2: wrong WWNs

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted May 26, 2020 01:52 AM

    Interesting.  Just to be 100% clear, you're using the same web browser, and 8 hosts show exactly correct node and port WWNs, and one other host shows the WWN in the pseudo-decimal format... is that correct?  If so, is it possible for you to share some more data, specifically the actual node/port WWNs of that 9th host, and how they are displayed in the web UI?

    (Just for the record, WWNs in the web UI is totally not my area of expertise... I'm just poking around in here and trying to be helpful. :smileyhappy:)

    --

    Darius



  • 7.  RE: 6.7 U2: wrong WWNs

    Posted Sep 08, 2020 03:14 PM

    So, I've noticed this between powercli and the vCenter UI..

    PowerCli returns this data:

    NodeWorldWideName : 2305843080543657894

    PortType          : Unknown

    PortWorldWideName : 1152921575936810918

    Speed             : 0

    Device            : vmhba4

    Key               : key-vim.host.FibreChannelHba-vmhba4

    Model             : Emulex LPe36000 Fibre Channel Adapter

    But vCenter UI says this:

    It seems that powercli is reporting in decimal, and vcenter in hex.. So there is likely a bug in the HostUI that displays it in decimal as well.