VMWare 6.5
I have two vCenters both running 6.5
I have 9 ESXI hosts all running 6.5 and up to date will all patches.
Trying to implement VSAN on both ESXI Hosts.
1. Created a Datacenter on both vCenters.
2. Add VSAN to my VMkernal on each ESXI host.
I had a VMkernal already defined the same name on all 9 hosts.
I started to add VSAN to each one and on several it added but a few it did not.
After a while I tried again and they added the VSAN
I have one ESXI 6.5 host that will not add it.
A General System error occurred any ideas?
Thank you
None of those servers are supported to run anything past ESXi 5.5 so random instability such as this comes with the territory - I hope this is a homelab :smileygrin: .
You *might* fare better with ESXi 6.0 on these.
If there are zombie processes that can't be stopped and/or something hogging inits (already limited) memory then restarting services likely isn't going to help (as the services don't cleanly go down). Try rebooting the host. If you have any 3rd-party plug-ins, monitoring tools or utilities that eat resources (e.g. RecoverPoint) then consider temporarily disabling these.
Bob
From what you have said it seems like a vCenter/client/account issue - are you positive all hosts have the same build version installed and the vCenter is on equivalent or higher build? (e.g. be more specific - build 8294253 not '6.5 U2').
Any of the above potential causes can be ruled out via setting this via CLI e.g.
# esxcli vsan network ip add -i vmkX
# esxcli vsan network list
Bob
Thebobkin
First thank you for responding.
The command failed and all hosts are at same version as you can see below. Any other command to try?
[root@TGCSESXI-7:~] esxcli vsan network ip add -i list
Unable to complete Sysinfo operation. Please see the VMkernel log file for more details.: Sysinfo error: Not foundSee VMkernel log for details.
[root@TGCSESXI-7:~] esxcli vsan network list
[root@TGCSESXI-7:~] esxcli system version get
Product: VMware ESXi
Version: 6.5.0
Build: Releasebuild-13635690
Update: 2
Patch: 88
[root@TGCSESXI-5:~] esxcli system version get
Product: VMware ESXi
Version: 6.5.0
Build: Releasebuild-13635690
Update: 2
Patch: 88
[root@TGCSESXI-6:~] esxcli system version get
Product: VMware ESXi
Version: 6.5.0
Build: Releasebuild-13635690
Update: 2
Patch: 88
[root@TGCSESXI-8:~] esxcli system version get
Product: VMware ESXi
Version: 6.5.0
Build: Releasebuild-13635690
Update: 2
Patch: 88
Thank you
Tom
Update I tried this VMK3 is the interface that I am trying to add VSAN to
[root@TGCSESXI-7:~] esxcli network ip interface tag get -i vmk0
Tags: Management
[root@TGCSESXI-7:~] esxcli network ip interface tag get -i vmk1
Tags:
[root@TGCSESXI-7:~] esxcli network ip interface tag get -i vmk2
Tags: VMotion
[root@TGCSESXI-7:~] esxcli network ip interface tag get -i vmk3
Tags:
So then I ran this
[root@TGCSESXI-7:~] esxcli network ip interface tag add -i vmk3 -t VSAN
[root@TGCSESXI-7:~] esxcli network ip interface tag get -i vmk3
Tags: VSAN
[root@TGCSESXI-7:~]
Now it has the Tag but when I look on vcenter the vmkernal still does not show the VSAN
Thoughts
Hello Tom,
You ran the commands wrong and thus the fail message - please look at these carefully - if ever in doubt about syntax simply type most of the command and -h , it will show you the next available options and syntax.
Please also inform of both vCenter build versions.
Bob
Hi this time I copied it from your posting
[root@TGCSESXI-7:~] esxcli vsan network ip add -i vmk3
Unable to load module /usr/lib/vmware/vmkmod/cmmds: Out of memory
vCenter 6.5.0
Build 7119157
OUT OF Memory??????????
Unlikely your problem here but don't manage hosts with a vCenter of lower version - this needs to be on the same or higher release version (e.g. 6.5 U2 here):
VMware Product Interoperability Matrices
So, the network configuration can't be configured because one of the underlying vSAN services (CMMDS) is having issues - are these nested hosts or physical servers and with what specs?
Bob
Bob
They are all Physical hosts
On this vCenter/Cluster
Dell PowerEdge R210 Host 1 VSAN working
Dell PowerEdge R300 Host 2 VSAN working
Dell PowerEdge R210 Host 3 VSAN NOT WORKING
Dell PowerEdge R310 Host 4 VSAN Working
I tried running this ./sbin/services.sh restart but I did not receive any responses on the console.
I thought about restarting the services on the host but that did not work
Any ideas?
None of those servers are supported to run anything past ESXi 5.5 so random instability such as this comes with the territory - I hope this is a homelab :smileygrin: .
You *might* fare better with ESXi 6.0 on these.
If there are zombie processes that can't be stopped and/or something hogging inits (already limited) memory then restarting services likely isn't going to help (as the services don't cleanly go down). Try rebooting the host. If you have any 3rd-party plug-ins, monitoring tools or utilities that eat resources (e.g. RecoverPoint) then consider temporarily disabling these.
Bob
restarting the host took care of this
Thanks everyone