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Here is a little more info. &nbsp;From the VM host, I can ping the VNXe &nbsp;device however from VNXe, I cannot ping the host.
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Here is a little more info.  From the VM host, I can ping the VNXe  device however from VNXe, I cannot ping the host.

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So, in the end, it looks like the host has issues with a nic card. &nbsp;Replaced it and all looks OK.
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So, in the end, it looks like the host has issues with a nic card.  Replaced it and all looks OK.

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Good suggestion to help rule out potential issues. Problem turned out to be a funky nic card.
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Good suggestion to help rule out potential issues. Problem turned out to be a funky nic card.

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We added a new host to our VMSphere 5.0 infrastructure. &nbsp;We tried connecting storage on the EMC VNXe SAN to it with no luck. &nbsp;Suddenly though, a datastore hosted on the same storage device for a different VM is listed as inactive. &nbsp;No idea what went wrong. &nbsp;Can someone help us?
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We added a new host to our VMSphere 5.0 infrastructure.  We tried connecting storage on the EMC VNXe SAN to it with no luck.  Suddenly though, a datastore hosted on the same storage device for a different VM is listed as inactive.  No idea what went wrong.  Can someone help us?

VMWare DataStore Inactive

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.