Re-create vCLS VMs

[maxyardley]

Long story short I accidentally/intentionally broke the new vCLS feature with 7.0.1. I had a iSCSI LUN that became corrupt and needed to be recreated entirely. This happened to be the shared datastore that DRS chose to store its vCLS VMs on.

Is there any way that I can force the agent manager to re-create this process entirely?

[maxyardley · Accepted solution]

It seems the workaround for this is to create a new cluster and move the hosts over. When I setup DRS again the vCLS VMs were deployed from the templates and the "Healthy" status returned.

[depping]

The vCLS agent VMs are tied to the cluster object, not the DRS or HA service. You can however force the cleanup of these VMs following these guidelines:

Putting a Cluster in Retreat Mode

[JvodQl0D]

sorry to necro-bump.  i'll add the more recent/popular solution for others searching.

1) set cluster into "retreat mode"
2) wait for vCLS's to auto remove.
3) set cluster non-"retreat mode". done.

https://4sysops.com/archives/vmware-vcenter-server-70-update-2-cluster-service-vcls-and-retreat-mode...
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.resmgmt.doc/GUID-F98C3C93-875D-4570...
https://youtu.be/WOgkfLL11CY

[klajdiazuni]

Hello how are you?

i had a porblem with lun and i replace the sas storage of the server,and when i restored the VM machines the vCLS are orphaned ,can someone helps me .