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Restarting management services may result in VSAN network partition if LACP is configured

Posted on By Mostafa Khalil 1 Comment on Restarting management services may result in VSAN network partition if LACP is configured

An issue was observed where a VSAN node gets partitioned after running at the host’s console: #services.sh restart The host rejoins the cluster after the services restat. The root cause was attributed to restarting the “lacpd” service which results in tearing down the LAG group then re-forming it. During which time, the host is disconnected from…

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ESXi 5.5 EP07 posted. A must have before upgrading to VSAN6 in certain configurations

Posted on By Mostafa Khalil No Comments on ESXi 5.5 EP07 posted. A must have before upgrading to VSAN6 in certain configurations

A critical issue was reported with upgrading VSAN from ESXi 5.5 with Patch 4 or Express Patch 6 to vSphere 6 GA. The problem was introduced in the above patches which attempted to fix an incorrect SSD capacity reporting when using RVC command vsan.disks_stats. EP07 backs out the above fix. Here is the possible sequence of…

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