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The expansion of cluster fails with an error log.

Could anyone tell me how to solve it?

 

<Detail>
When I try to add a node to a cluster in the prism element, 
it fails with the error log below.

 

Failure in pre expand-cluster tests. Errors: Failed to start foundation service to do network validation SSD tier on nodes ou'xxx.xxx.xxx.xx'] is not sized to accomodate expected metadata growth on cluster. Refer KB-8842 for more details.

 

<Environment>
As shown in the diagram below, the Nutanix nodes are created 
as one of the virtual machines on the ESXi.

used version : ce-2020.09.16.iso

 

 

<What I have tried>
・Improving the spec of SSDs in a virtual machine for the additional Nutanix node
 SSD1 : 32GB  → 64GB
 SSD2 : 200GB → 400GB
 SSD3 : 500GB → 1TB

 

・Confirming the result of KB-8842

-->The result of issuing commands are attached as "kb-8842.log"

     in the bottom of this page.

 

<Re-production procedure>
1) Creating Nutanix nodes as one of the virtual machines on ESXi
2) Composing a cluster with 3 nodes
3) Expanding the cluster in the prism fails with the error log

 

Also, this issue occurs in the procedure below

1) Creating Nutanix nodes as one of the virtual machines on ESXi
2) Composing a cluster with 4 nodes
3) Deleting one node from the cluster
4) Try to add the deleted node to this cluster in the prism
5) This also fails with the same error log

 

<Background>
I would like to build an environment which enables engineers to test
some functions of Nutanix cluster for promoting sales without configuring every time.

For this purpose, we built the Nutanix nodes as one of the virtual machines 
and saved them as templates on ESXi.

From these templates, the Nutanix nodes are supposed to be created, tested and deleted so that engineers can test them easily without configuring.

However, I faced the problem during the verification of this environment. Currently, this environment works except the expansion of the cluster.


It would be appreciated if anyone of you tell me how to solve this issue or advise me to

troubleshoot this problem.

 

Best regards,

 

kb-8842.log----------------------------------------------------------------------

nutanix@NTNX-a8ecfc4f-A-CVM:192.168.105.12:~$ allssh 'sudo find /home/nutanix/datta/stargate-storage/disks -maxdepth 3 -name cassandra -exec df -h {} \;|sort -ru''ncli sp ls

odetool -h 0 ringcli sp lsodetool -h 0 ring
Address         Status State      Load            Owns    Token                                                          
                                                          V0000000lFlVAK9hw68iPp9NIuMmNe4Eu4HcfyYJZf40dEyFegsKnLNddhpE   
192.168.105.14  Up     Normal     12.21 MB        50.00%  00000000aBzpuU8f32XGj7umFvcKovngyx1sWTHGmDIHAMwa9eb8aYRZpdkN   
192.168.105.12  Up     Normal     13.43 MB        25.00%  FV00000082pry4lRFAL9iz6EJMW4eGLChDO535CuplCIiFk23h0k4v5MOkqE   
192.168.105.13  Up     Normal     10.84 MB        25.00%  V0000000lFlVAK9hw68iPp9NIuMmNe4Eu4HcfyYJZf40dEyFegsKnLNddhpE   
nutanix@NTNX-a8ecfc4f-A-CVM:192.168.105.12:~$ 
nutanix@NTNX-a8ecfc4f-A-CVM:192.168.105.12:~$ 
nutanix@NTNX-a8ecfc4f-A-CVM:192.168.105.12:~$ 
nutanix@NTNX-a8ecfc4f-A-CVM:192.168.105.12:~$ nodetool -h 0 ringallssh 'sudo find /home/nutanix/datta/stargate-storage/disks -maxdepth 3 -name cassandra -exec df -h {} \;|sort -ru''ncli sp ls

    Id                        : 0005dd9e-e3f2-9280-07a5-005056aea63b::11
    Uuid                      : 8966bf5a-79d3-4cb3-bc3a-607a87e53008
    Name                      : default-storage-pool-80877259936142
    Disk Count                : 6
    Disk Ids                  : 0005dd9e-e3f2-9280-07a5-005056aea63b::66, 0005dd9e-e3f2-9280-07a5-005056aea63b::71, 0005dd9e-e3f2-9280-07a5-005056aea63b::72, 0005dd9e-e3f2-9280-07a5-005056aea63b::74, 0005dd9e-e3f2-9280-07a5-005056aea63b::75, 0005dd9e-e3f2-9280-07a5-005056aea63b::65
    Capacity (Physical)       : 1.07 TiB (1,174,938,692,199 bytes)
    Used (Physical)           : 6.11 GiB (6,560,948,224 bytes)
    Free (Physical)           : 1.06 TiB (1,168,377,743,975 bytes)
nutanix@NTNX-a8ecfc4f-A-CVM:192.168.105.12:~$ 
nutanix@NTNX-a8ecfc4f-A-CVM:192.168.105.12:~$ 
nutanix@NTNX-a8ecfc4f-A-CVM:192.168.105.12:~$ 
nutanix@NTNX-a8ecfc4f-A-CVM:192.168.105.12:~$ ncli sp lsodetool -h 0 ringallssh 'sudo find /home/nutanix/datta/stargate-storage/disks -maxdepth 3 -name cassandra -exec df -h {} \;|sort -ru''
================== 192.168.105.13 =================
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1       196G  1.2G  193G   1% /home/nutanix/data/stargate-storage/disks/0200000000000000
/dev/sda4       433G  1.3G  427G   1% /home/nutanix/data/stargate-storage/disks/0300000000000000
================== 192.168.105.14 =================
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1       197G  1.1G  194G   1% /home/nutanix/data/stargate-storage/disks/0200000000000000
/dev/sda4       433G  1.1G  428G   1% /home/nutanix/data/stargate-storage/disks/0300000000000000
================== 192.168.105.12 =================
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1       196G  1.3G  193G   1% /home/nutanix/data/stargate-storage/disks/0200000000000000
/dev/sda4       433G  1.3G  427G   1% /home/nutanix/data/stargate-storage/disks/0300000000000000
nutanix@NTNX-a8ecfc4f-A-CVM:192.168.105.12:~$