(Solaris 11 x64) Application may not failover when a cable is pulled off from the ESX host

Last published : Sep 18, 2026
In case a storage cable is pulled off from the ESX host, the applications running inside its virtual machines may not failover to another virtual machine. As VMware vSphere APIs do not allow disk detach operation in case of a storage cable pull scenario, the VMwareDisks resource may fail to go offline.
Workaround: For the affected virtual machine, manually detach the disk from the vSphere console.