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pugmaster
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‎05-12-2022 05:19 PM

I don't have a vSAN license. I don't use vSAN. So why VSANMGMTSVC, vsansystem, etc in my log files?

Hello. 

As the subject says, we don't have vSAN at all. Not even a license. We're old school FibreChannel. Our ESXi hosts boot off a RAID1 array and our datastores are on luns (3PAR and now Pure storage). Zippon vSAN

Yet my logs are constantly filled with logs related to vsan - I see constant syslogs from 'vsansystem', 'VSANMGMTSVC'example

Why? Is the vSAN service needed even for local disk? What about storage on the SAN?

Example:

vsansystem: warning vsansystem[2118091] [vSAN@6876 sub=Libs] open(/dev/cmmds): No such file or directory"

 

  • Is/are vsan related services needed for hosts/clusters w/o vSAN?
  • Can I safely diasble vSAN services when I don't even have a license for vSAN?
  • Advice on cutting these logs to a remote syslog server?

Any tech clarification or general feedback is greatly appreciated

Thanks!

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a_p_
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‎05-15-2022 05:28 AM

Replies were posted in your duplicate thread: https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Question-for-the-experts-are-vsan-service-like-vs...

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