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I have a problem with OS and Distributed Switches on vCenter.

When I migrate the vm-network from standard switch to distributed switch show the next error:

Detailed information for cvm_startup_dependency_check:
Node x.x.x.x: 
FAIL: .dvsData directory is not persistent yet
Refer to KB 2050 (http://portal.nutanix.com/kb/2050) for details on cvm_startup_dependency_check

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PLUGIN RESULTS
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/health_checks/hypervisor_checks/cvm_startup_dependency_check      FAIL ]

I can see that when reboot the ESXi host and start the CVM I lost it network config on the CVM, and I have to assign again network adapter on the CVM.

I don't know how configure on the vcenter the distributed switch to make persistent.

Hi @JESUS19 Could you please checks if .dvsData directory is present on pynfs mounted local datastore ?

Also please help me with the following

  • AOS version?
  • vCenter version?
  • NCC version?
  • Also, may I know why you want to migrate the vmnetwrok from standard switch to the distributed switch?

A good read article on dvsData

https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2011/06/vds-config-location-and-ha.html

Hi @Neel Kotak @JESUS19 

The above tests suggests to check if the dvsdata.db directory is present in Esxi host.

When an ESXi host boots it will get the data required to recreate the VDS structure locally by reading /etc/vmware/dvsdata.db and from esx.conf. You can view the dvsdata.db file yourself by doing:(This location is held by the Host ramdisk which is non-persistent)

net-dvs -f /etc/vmware/dvsdata.db

Secondly, the VMFS volume that holds a working directory (place where CVM .vmx is stored)  that is connected to a VDS will have the following folder:

drwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          420 Feb  8 12:33 .dvsData

If you go to this folder you will see another folder. This folder appears to be some sort of unique identifier, and when comparing the string to the output of “net-dvs” it appears to be the identifier of the dvSwitch that was created.

drwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         1.5k Feb  8 12:47 6d 8b 2e 50 3c d3 50 4a-ad dd b5 30 2f b1 0c aa

Within this folder you will find a collection of files:

-rw------- 1 root root 3.0k Feb 9 09:00 106 -rw------- 1 root root 3.0k Feb 9 09:02 136 -rw------- 1 root root 3.0k Feb 9 09:00 138 -rw------- 1 root root 3.0k Feb 9 09:05 152 -rw------- 1 root root 3.0k Feb 9 09:00 153 -rw------- 1 root root 3.0k Feb 9 09:05 156 -rw------- 1 root root 3.0k Feb 9 09:05 159 -rw------- 1 root root 3.0k Feb 9 09:00 160 -rw------- 1 root root 3.0k Feb 9 09:00 161

Only CVM DVS info is persistent on the datastore, host configuration for dvs ports used for vmknics is persisted locally in /etc/vmware/dvsdata.db, which is available after boot. So DVS comes up and vmknic can use DVS to connect to NFS. 

Login to the Esxi host as root and navigate to /usr/lib/vmware/bin and run this command

# ./net-dvs

In case the command does not return any error, there is an issue with the local VMFS volume where CVM is located and if this is non-persistent, we may well need to look into the kernel logs referencing this if there are any VMFS corruption issues.

Lets get the snippets for the following:
less /var/run/log/vmkernel.log | grep failed

P.S: Please dont worry about the CVM data, its on the SSD and only the bootable ISO is present on the local SATADOM/M.2 drives.

Doc Reference: http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2012/02/23/digging-deeper-into-the-vds-construct/

Hi @JESUS19 Could you please checks if .dvsData directory is present on pynfs mounted local datastore ?

 

Also please help me with the following

 

  1. AOS version?
  2. vCenter version?
  3. NCC version?
  4. Also, may I know why you want to migrate the vmnetwrok from standard switch to the distributed switch?

A good read article on dvsData

https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2011/06/vds-config-location-and-ha.html

 

I can see the directory “.dvsData” in all datastora.

1.- AOS version 5.15 LTS

2.- vCenter 6.7.0 Build 16046713

3.- NCC version 3.9.5

 

Thank you for your support

 

Hi @JESUS19 

Could you please perform the following steps:

Login to the Esxi host as root and navigate to /usr/lib/vmware/bin and run this command

# ./net-dvs

In case the command does not return any error, there is an issue with the local VMFS volume where CVM is located and if this is non-persistent, we may well need to look into the kernel logs referencing this if there are any VMFS corruption issues.

Lets get the snippets for the following:
less /var/run/log/vmkernel.log | grep failed

P.S: Please dont worry about the CVM data, its on the SSD and only the bootable ISO is present on the local SATADOM/M.2 drives.

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