Workaround 2

This section covers the second workaround procedure for when disks go offline after adding a vNIC.

To bring offline disks back online, follow these steps:

1. Run command shell as administrator.
2. In the command shell, execute the following command to start the Disk Partition application:

   diskpart

3. In the Disk Partition application, execute the following command:

   san

4. Check the command output for the following message:

   SAN Policy : Offline Shared

   If the message is present in the command output, then execute the following commands:

   1. san policy=OnlineAll
   2. list disk
   3. For each offline disk, execute the following commands separately:

      1. select disk X, where X is the disk number as displayed by the list disk command.

         For example: select disk 1

      2. attributes disk clear readonly

      3. online disk

All the disks remain online even after adding new vNICs.