We are experiencing a extremely odd problem with vSphere 6.5 which I'm hoping someone may have encountered before. We have a support case open for it but we are not getting very far. Basically any vCenter action which seems to necessitate querying a storage cluster appears to hang for eternity with no error this doesn't matter if its a NFS or iSCSI storage cluster all are impacted. Tasks that we cant perform are for example are ...
- Adding a disk
- Deploying a clone
- changing disk size
We can however perform storage related tasks direct on the host targeted at single datastores, additionally within vCenter we can deploy objects to standalone datastores. This is not ideal however when you need to deploy VM templates to storage clusters. Initially we thought this was a permissions thing but this happens even for the administrator@vsphere.local account. Has anyone seen this before, or something similar.
Just an Interesting observation, I just created a fresh storage cluster and enabled Storage DRS I wasn't able to deploy VM's. Then I disabled it and suddenly I was unable to deploy VM's again, not sure how relevant/useful this information is?
Even I faced the same issue while performing any datastore relared activity/jobs.
Goind through logs, we saw driver aborts on the hosts where the datastore information is not reflecting correctly, we checked your driver versions and discovered that they are old.
Also check the Esxi build. If it is running on GA, kindly upgrade the same. This is know issue and resolved in 6.5 U1
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Not sure I understand bud, do you have a KB to what you are referring to, thanks in advance.
Kindly run below command and you will get output for the same. Kindly shre the same here
command
esxcfg-scsidevs -a
outuput example
vmhba64 lpfc link-up fc.20000090fa7b5f15:10000090fa7b5f15 (0000:11:00.1) Emulex Corporation Emulex LPe12000 8Gb PCIe Fibre Channel Adapter
vmhba65 iscsi_vmk online iqn.1998-01.com.vmware:bhbesxi-r03-689e876biSCSI Software Adapter
[root@BHBESXi-R03:~]
Not sure what can be determined from the below ...
Device UID Device Type Console Device Size Multipath PluginDisplay Name
eui.16c750f6b1331bfc6c9ce9004d0199b2 Direct-Access /vmfs/devices/disks/eui.16c750f6b1331bfc6c9ce9004d0199b2 2097152MB NMP Nimble iSCSI Disk (eui.16c750f6b1331bfc6c9ce9004d0199b2)
eui.1b52c68fb8022bfc6c9ce9004d0199b2 Direct-Access /vmfs/devices/disks/eui.1b52c68fb8022bfc6c9ce9004d0199b2 2097152MB NMP Nimble iSCSI Disk (eui.1b52c68fb8022bfc6c9ce9004d0199b2)
eui.20bca21b928de6326c9ce9004d0199b2 Direct-Access /vmfs/devices/disks/eui.20bca21b928de6326c9ce9004d0199b2 2097152MB NMP Nimble iSCSI Disk (eui.20bca21b928de6326c9ce9004d0199b2)
eui.45fdde0bc2562ea56c9ce9004d0199b2 Direct-Access /vmfs/devices/disks/eui.45fdde0bc2562ea56c9ce9004d0199b2 2097152MB NMP Nimble iSCSI Disk (eui.45fdde0bc2562ea56c9ce9004d0199b2)
eui.4a6700c30df7018b6c9ce9004d0199b2 Direct-Access /vmfs/devices/disks/eui.4a6700c30df7018b6c9ce9004d0199b2 2097152MB NMP Nimble iSCSI Disk (eui.4a6700c30df7018b6c9ce9004d0199b2)
eui.74ce190f214bfd866c9ce9004d0199b2 Direct-Access /vmfs/devices/disks/eui.74ce190f214bfd866c9ce9004d0199b2 2097152MB NMP Nimble iSCSI Disk (eui.74ce190f214bfd866c9ce9004d0199b2)
eui.799d8ed81d1a15346c9ce9004d0199b2 Direct-Access /vmfs/devices/disks/eui.799d8ed81d1a15346c9ce9004d0199b2 2097152MB NMP Nimble iSCSI Disk (eui.799d8ed81d1a15346c9ce9004d0199b2)
eui.7e8fe7cfa3b52a606c9ce9004d0199b2 Direct-Access /vmfs/devices/disks/eui.7e8fe7cfa3b52a606c9ce9004d0199b2 2097152MB NMP Nimble iSCSI Disk (eui.7e8fe7cfa3b52a606c9ce9004d0199b2)
eui.89e01069371748936c9ce9004d0199b2 Direct-Access /vmfs/devices/disks/eui.89e01069371748936c9ce9004d0199b2 2097152MB NMP Nimble iSCSI Disk (eui.89e01069371748936c9ce9004d0199b2)
eui.93f7dbf9c3816bbf6c9ce9004d0199b2 Direct-Access /vmfs/devices/disks/eui.93f7dbf9c3816bbf6c9ce9004d0199b2 2097152MB NMP Nimble iSCSI Disk (eui.93f7dbf9c3816bbf6c9ce9004d0199b2)
eui.a86ec9db7c0ee4156c9ce9004d0199b2 Direct-Access /vmfs/devices/disks/eui.a86ec9db7c0ee4156c9ce9004d0199b2 2097152MB NMP Nimble iSCSI Disk (eui.a86ec9db7c0ee4156c9ce9004d0199b2)
eui.ad1b73b5bdd8335c6c9ce9004d0199b2 Direct-Access /vmfs/devices/disks/eui.ad1b73b5bdd8335c6c9ce9004d0199b2 2097152MB NMP Nimble iSCSI Disk (eui.ad1b73b5bdd8335c6c9ce9004d0199b2)
eui.c2b4d902237604a86c9ce9004d0199b2 Direct-Access /vmfs/devices/disks/eui.c2b4d902237604a86c9ce9004d0199b2 2097152MB NMP Nimble iSCSI Disk (eui.c2b4d902237604a86c9ce9004d0199b2)
eui.dc96b0e812cd0ceb6c9ce9004d0199b2 Direct-Access /vmfs/devices/disks/eui.dc96b0e812cd0ceb6c9ce9004d0199b2 204800MB NMP Nimble iSCSI Disk (eui.dc96b0e812cd0ceb6c9ce9004d0199b2)
eui.e75b19f3523f4e1a6c9ce9004d0199b2 Direct-Access /vmfs/devices/disks/eui.e75b19f3523f4e1a6c9ce9004d0199b2 2097152MB NMP Nimble iSCSI Disk (eui.e75b19f3523f4e1a6c9ce9004d0199b2)
eui.f1506b18339919516c9ce9004d0199b2 Direct-Access /vmfs/devices/disks/eui.f1506b18339919516c9ce9004d0199b2 2097152MB NMP Nimble iSCSI Disk (eui.f1506b18339919516c9ce9004d0199b2)
naa.600a09803830304d643f4636386c346a Direct-Access /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.600a09803830304d643f4636386c346a 12288MB NMP NETAPP iSCSI Disk (naa.600a09803830304d643f4636386c346a)
[root@secretserver:~]
Seems no issue/erorr on the driver side....
What is the ESXi and vCetnr verion and build.?????
vCenter Version 6.5.0.13000 Build 7515524
and Host version is ...
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6506686
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7526125