All SSDs are showing ""Eligible for use by VSAN" but when i try to claim no disks showing.

[LouisShin]

Hi,

I recently deployed 3 vSAN nodes and try to configure vSAN but disks are not showing up.

#  vdq -q

[

   {

      "Name"     : "naa.600605b00d744e70249c03f61cbc036f",

      "VSANUUID" : "",

      "State"    : "Eligible for use by VSAN",

      "Reason"   : "None",

      "IsSSD"    : "1",

"IsCapacityFlash": "0",

      "IsPDL"    : "0",

      "Size(MB)" : "915200",

   "FormatType" : "512e",

   },

   {

      "Name"     : "naa.600605b00d744e70249af4e9125ec3f9",

      "VSANUUID" : "",

      "State"    : "Ineligible for use by VSAN",

      "Reason"   : "Has partitions",

      "IsSSD"    : "0",

"IsCapacityFlash": "0",

      "IsPDL"    : "0",

      "Size(MB)" : "915200",

   "FormatType" : "512e",

   },

   {

      "Name"     : "naa.600605b00d744e70249c042a1fd29a60",

      "VSANUUID" : "",

      "State"    : "Eligible for use by VSAN",

      "Reason"   : "None",

      "IsSSD"    : "1",

"IsCapacityFlash": "0",

      "IsPDL"    : "0",

      "Size(MB)" : "3662304",

   "FormatType" : "512e",

   },

]

Two disks don't have any partitions.

# partedUtil getptbl /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.600605b00d744e70249c03f61cbc036f

gpt

116671 255 63 1874329600

# partedUtil getptbl /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.600605b00d744e70249c042a1fd29a60

gpt

466878 255 63 7500398592

# esxcli storage nmp device list

naa.600605b00d744e70249c03f61cbc036f

   Device Display Name: Local AVAGO Disk (naa.600605b00d744e70249c03f61cbc036f)

   Storage Array Type: VMW_SATP_LOCAL

   Storage Array Type Device Config: SATP VMW_SATP_LOCAL does not support device configuration.

   Path Selection Policy: VMW_PSP_FIXED

   Path Selection Policy Device Config: {preferred=vmhba2:C2:T1:L0;current=vmhba2:C2:T1:L0}

   Path Selection Policy Device Custom Config:

   Working Paths: vmhba2:C2:T1:L0

   Is USB: false

naa.600605b00d744e70249af4e9125ec3f9

   Device Display Name: Local AVAGO Disk (naa.600605b00d744e70249af4e9125ec3f9)

   Storage Array Type: VMW_SATP_LOCAL

   Storage Array Type Device Config: SATP VMW_SATP_LOCAL does not support device configuration.

   Path Selection Policy: VMW_PSP_FIXED

   Path Selection Policy Device Config: {preferred=vmhba2:C2:T0:L0;current=vmhba2:C2:T0:L0}

   Path Selection Policy Device Custom Config:

   Working Paths: vmhba2:C2:T0:L0

   Is USB: false

naa.600605b00d744e70249c042a1fd29a60

   Device Display Name: Local AVAGO Disk (naa.600605b00d744e70249c042a1fd29a60)

   Storage Array Type: VMW_SATP_LOCAL

   Storage Array Type Device Config: SATP VMW_SATP_LOCAL does not support device configuration.

   Path Selection Policy: VMW_PSP_FIXED

   Path Selection Policy Device Config: {preferred=vmhba2:C2:T2:L0;current=vmhba2:C2:T2:L0}

   Path Selection Policy Device Custom Config:

   Working Paths: vmhba2:C2:T2:L0

   Is USB: false

naa.500304801f63a63d

   Device Display Name: Local LSI Enclosure Svc Dev (naa.500304801f63a63d)

   Storage Array Type: VMW_SATP_LOCAL

   Storage Array Type Device Config: SATP VMW_SATP_LOCAL does not support device configuration.

   Path Selection Policy: VMW_PSP_FIXED

   Path Selection Policy Device Config: {preferred=vmhba2:C0:T8:L0;current=vmhba2:C0:T8:L0}

   Path Selection Policy Device Custom Config:

   Working Paths: vmhba2:C0:T8:L0

   Is USB: false

ESXi version is below.

# vmware -v -l

VMware ESXi 6.7.0 build-10302608

VMware ESXi 6.7.0 Update 1

Can someone help me to figure out this issues? I tried to find but no luck with googling.

Thank you.

Louis

[TheBobkin · Accepted solution]

Hello Louis,

Welcome to Communities.

When you say the disks are not showing up do you mean in Disk Management when you try to configure a Disk-Group in the GUI(s)?

If so then the first thing to validate is that the vCenter is also on 6.7 U1 or later - this is a common issue that I wrote a short kb about:

VMware Knowledge Base

If this is the case then you can easily confirm this and workaround the issue by creating the Disk-Group via the CLI.

If vCenter is 6.7 U1/2 then I would start by looking at other factors such as are the devices marked as Local and as SSD/HDD (where applicable):

Mark Devices as Local

Mark Devices as HDD

Mark Storage Devices as Flash

VMware Knowledge Base

Bob

[LouisShin]

Thank you very much Bob!! I have updated vCenter and all disks are showing as expected.

The previous version was vCenter Appliance 6.7 (6.7.0.10000) and now updated to latest one 6.7.0.31100.

All good now, thank you again!

Louis