Good Morning,
I started an vsphere 7 evaluation with vSAN. As a lab I usually shutdown (ordered) all components: (First, vm, then vcenter, then hosts).
Today, I cannot start some vm, and I see that one host is disconnected. (reason on vcenter: License expired)
I checked on Host: You are currently using ESXi in evaluation mode. This license will expire in 60 days.
Installation was about two weeks ago, all servers were installed on the same hour, vcenter was also deployed. VSAN was configured, some machines created, deleted and all vsan parameters and status seems ok.
Time was set from beginning with ntp (all componets are syncronized with a pair of ntp servers).
On problem host, ntp start with host was not working. This server seems to have a host battery problem, and all servers were disconnected from pdu yesterday due to maintenance on lab (they were powered off)
After correct time, set ntp again, and restart server, still does not connect to vcenter.
Problems I face are two:
* Cannot connect that server to cluster after the clock problem. -> I could reinstall that server, but, the real problem is:
* Cannot recover virtualmachines storage on that server although they are replicated on vsan on "raid 1" configuration and cluster health before shutdown all machines was green
Policy:
General
Name vSAN Default Storage Policy
Description Storage policy used as default for vSAN datastores
Rule-set 1: VSAN
Placement
Storage Type VSAN
Site disaster tolerance None - standard cluster
Failures to tolerate 1 failure - RAID-1 (Mirroring)
Number of disk stripes per object 1
IOPS limit for object 0
Object space reservation Thick provisioning
Flash read cache reservation 0%
Disable object checksum No
Force provisioning No
Any clue to recover data?
Data is not important, was dummy virtual machines, but had plan to test vsan resilience and the cascade problem caused but one tiny hardware problem seems that is not working as expected.
Thanks and Best Regards,