Hello,
I'm having an issue since 1 month to add host with my "new" vCenter 5.5
I really need your help
Before showing errors and logs, let me explain the situation :
- December 2019, our vCenter 5.5 crashed
- I reinstalled it all "new" (it kept the same IP and same hostname)
- I reconfigured clusters
- Then I added 15 ESXi without any errors
- But... 5 ESXi cannot be added. I checked errors logs, even from TRIVIA level, but I'm still stucked
- These 5 ESXi were previously in the old vCenter 5.5 ; so I know it worked before the crash
What I already tried and it didnt work :
- Add the ESX with IP
- Add with hostname
- Add in another cluster
- Add in the datacenter
- From ESX to my vCenter (via SSH), I tried :
- NSLOOKUP
- Ping
- Traceroute
- It's all working from the 5 ESX to the vCenter (and vice versa)
Others informations :
- vCenter Licence is OK
- ESXi Licences are OK
- DNS, hostname, domain, everything in the network is configured
Now the logs... as said, I enabled TRIVIA logs on the vCenter AND on the ESXi.
I checked logs on :
- ESXi hosts (hostd.log and vpxa.log)
- vCenter (vpxd.log)
I tried to compare these logs from ESXi that can be added, and ESXi than cannot be added.
So here the errors that I've found, but I still cannot understand why it doesnt work... if you can please, check and help ↓↓
Logs on vCenter :
2020-01-28T15:50:19.309Z [7F3AAD6AB700 error 'provisioningvpxNfcClient' opID=09699E96-00000699-8a] [VpxNfcClient] Unable to connect to NFC server:
2020-01-28T15:50:19.309Z [7F3AAD6AB700 error 'vpxdvpxdMoLicenseManager' opID=09699E96-00000699-8a] [LicMgr] DownloadDlfs got an exception: vim.fault.HostConnectFault
2020-01-28T15:50:19.309Z [7F3AAD6AB700 trivia 'QueryServiceProvider' opID=09699E96-00000699-8a] Clearing uncommitted generations on this thread for task-1237
2020-01-28T15:50:19.309Z [7F3AAD6AB700 trivia 'QueryServiceProvider' opID=09699E96-00000699-8a] Clearing uncommitted generations on this thread for task-1237
2020-01-28T15:50:19.311Z [7F3AAD324700 trivia 'vpxservicesvpxdMoEvent' opID=7608f9f5-SWI-1d743241] [EventManagerMo] Event 4790083(4788645); type [com.vmware.license.DLFDownloadFailedEvent], user [root], hostId [552=ESXiNameRemoved], computeResourceId [320=ClusterNameRemoved], datacenterId [21=DCNameRemoved]
[......] (I removed useless logs)
2020-01-28T15:50:19.475Z [7F3AAD6AB700 info 'Default' opID=09699E96-00000699-8a] [VpxLRO] -- ERROR task-1237 -- domain-c320 -- vim.ClusterComputeResource.addHost: vmodl.fault.NotEnoughLicenses:
--> Result:
--> (vmodl.fault.NotEnoughLicenses) {
--> dynamicType = <unset>,
--> faultCause = (vmodl.MethodFault) null,
--> faultMessage = (vmodl.LocalizableMessage) [
--> (vmodl.LocalizableMessage) {
--> dynamicType = <unset>,
--> key = "com.vmware.vim.vc.license.error.dlfDownloadFailed",
--> arg = (vmodl.KeyAnyValue) [
--> (vmodl.KeyAnyValue) {
--> dynamicType = <unset>,
--> key = "hostname",
--> value = "ESXiNameRemoved",
--> },
--> (vmodl.KeyAnyValue) {
--> dynamicType = <unset>,
--> key = "exception",
--> value = "vim.fault.HostConnectFault",
--> }
--> ],
--> message = <unset>,
--> }
--> ],
--> msg = ""
--> }
--> Args:
-->
2020-01-28T15:50:19.475Z [7F3AAD6AB700 trivia 'QueryServiceProvider' opID=09699E96-00000699-8a] Clearing uncommitted generations on this thread for task-1237
2020-01-28T15:50:19.476Z [7F3AAD6AB700 trivia 'commonvpxLro'] [VpxLRO::ClearCurrentMain] Clearing _currentMain
2020-01-28T15:50:19.476Z [7F3AAD6AB700 verbose 'PropertyProvider'] RecordOp ASSIGN: info.completeTime, task-1237
Why only these logs... because this error (DLF Download failed) is happening on all 5 ESXi
When I try to add an ESXi to the vCenter and it's working, I don't have these DLFs errors.
So I'm sure my problem is with DLF.
I've already checked this link : VMware Knowledge Base
The "SSL" was already checked on the ESXi. But to be sure, I unchecked it, restart services, rechecked it, restart services, tried to add host -> Still not working.
I'm lost.. with 50Mbs logs files per ESXi.
Thank you for your help.
Regards,
