We have an older AX4-5i iSCSI san that used to be part of our VMware 3.5 production environment. We have recently decomissioned/moved all of the servers from the old environment and are left with this piece of hardware. I have been able to get the username/password/ip address to log into the device.

My plan were to use this AX4 as a storage device for our new ESXi 5 lab. So far everything I have seen looks ok on it except that upon logging into it I get the message "Disk Processor Enclosure - Faulted". Everything else checks out as normal.

I will admit Im pretty new to EMC and SANs in general but this seems like a good way to start to familiarize myself with them. My first question is what exactly does this error message mean and is it a showstopper?

I have disconnected all of the hosts from this SAN could this be the reason that it is showing the faulted state?

Any help or guidance is appreciated.