Hello! Long time, no scripting! I’ve been blowing through VCF, deploying, redeploying, and built some scripts to help me with this. Sharing is caring, read on to see what I’ve done…
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vSAN
ESXi host stuck entering Maintenance Mode
Maintenance Mode task hangs
I told one of my nodes to enter maintenance mode and it sat for overnight like this:
That screenshot was taken almost exactly 26 hours later. There were no running VMs on the host, nothing on the local datastore, no resyncing or rebuilding objects in vSAN, and lastly nearly zero IO on the network adapters.
I tried canceling the task, it would not cancel.
I rebooted the host, it came back into the cluster with that task still running.
I rebooted my vCenter, and that finally killed the task.
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VMware Virtual SAN Health failed Cluster health test
Here’s the error
While building a new environment for my lab, I ran across an interesting thing yesterday.
I looked at my cluster’s VSAN health and saw this error:
It’s complaining that my hosts don’t have matching Virtual SAN advanced configuration items.
If you click on that error, you’ll see at the bottom where it shows comparisons of hosts and the advanced configurations:
It shows VSAN.DomMaxLeafAssocsPerHost and VSAN.DomOwnerInflightOps as being different between a few of my hosts. Looking at the image above, you’ll see node 09 has values of 36000 and 1024, respectively, while the other nodes 10-12 show 12000 and 0.
I immediately went to the host configuration advanced settings in the web client, searched VSAN and don’t see either of those. I even checked through PowerCLI and can’t see those:
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