I/O recovery for storage side cable movement in fabric-assigned WWPN fabrics including receiving a state change notification indicating a change to a first fabric-assigned world-wide port name (WWPN) on a fibre channel switch; pausing I/O activity for active logical unit numbers (LUNs) connected to the fibre channel switch via the first fabric-assigned WWPN; obtaining a list of potential fabric-assigned WWPNs; requesting, via the fibre channel switch, a reported list of LUNs from each fabric-assigned WWPN in the list of potential fabric-assigned WWPNs; comparing each reported list of LUNs to the paused active LUNs to determine a second fabric-assigned WWPN from the list of potential fabric-assigned WWPNs to which the paused active LUNs are connected; updating, with the second fabric-assigned WWPN, connection information for the paused active LUNs; and resuming I/O activity for the paused active LUNs using the updated connection information.