Hi I have two Vsan hosts configured with two vsan enabled VMkernel ports and the two hosts are on the HCL. Assuming the correct licensing is correctly applied when I go to try and configure vSAN on the cluster it shows a blink space under services such as below.
Just wondering why the vsan service is not visible when I start the configuration wizard
Thanks in advance
Sorry it has taken so long to get back to you the problem was down to a certificate issue in the vcenter appliance
I logged a call with GSS and they ran a python script which fixed the issue after which the qui options re-appeared
Thanks again for all your advice
Because vSAN needs 3 or more Nodes. Do you have already setup and added the witness Node to the vCenter?
Regards,
Joerg
Without a separate Shared Witness Appliance to run a 2-node vSAN cluster, you must have 3 or more nodes. Now with that, you should still see something under services regardless because for all it knows, you may be configuring a Stretched vSAN cluster. If you have the correct licensing added under vSAN, then I would try a restart of vCenter to make sure a process isn't hung up.
Hi
Thanks for that I did try adding a witness and restarted the vcenter appliance and still nothing appeared under service
really weird
I am trying to setup a small metro cluster and I have created a witness appliance
Really weird scratch head time thanks for your help though
@seamusobr1 Is vCenter on the same or higher version as the ESXi hosts? e.g. 7.0 U3 vCenter and ESXi 7.0 U3/U2/U1
Thanks Bobkin
I checked that and the vcenter is running the same version
@seamusobr1 So, if vmware-vsan-health service isn't running at all you wouldn't be able to get into that configuration wizard at all (would just get something like 'Unable to retrieve the cluster configuration'), I would still be suspect of whether the service is running properly and/or communication to vsanmgmtd on the nodes is functioning okay.
You can try restarting this service:
# service-control --stop vmware-vsan-health
# service-control --start vmware-vsan-health
Or all vCenter services (note that ideally you shouldn't have any running tasks etc.):
# service-control --stop --all
# service-control --start --all
Another thing that have seen multiple times in the past where you get partially broken UI panes/wizards is a number of possible browser/client issues, it is always worth testing with browser in incognito mode, another browser and with a different log-in e.g. administrator@vsphere.local .
Sorry it has taken so long to get back to you the problem was down to a certificate issue in the vcenter appliance
I logged a call with GSS and they ran a python script which fixed the issue after which the qui options re-appeared
Thanks again for all your advice
@seamusobr1 Thanks for closing the loop - this can be very valuable for anyone coming across such things in the future.
Yes, cert issues makes sense, I assume they used some variant of lstool (https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/80469), those are some incredibly handy scripts as cert issues can in some cases be fairly involved/complex without them.