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Dell EMC VxRail: Node is showing network partitioned, although it can ping other nodes via vmKping

Summary: Dell EMC VxRail: Node is showing network partitioned, although it can ping other nodes via vmKping

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Symptoms


There are no other network changes that occurred on this cluster,
 
  • Node is showing network partitioned, although it can ping other nodes via vmKping
  •  Node is in vSAN cluster partition.
  •  VSAN health page showing that host3 is disconnected from VC, it is actually failing API calls 
 
localcli vsan cluster get
Cluster Information:
   Enabled: true
   Current Local Time: 2019-03-03T07:40:03Z
   Local Node UUID: 5b90382f-a7d7-8dc2-4358-246e96e1013a
   Local Node Type: NORMAL
   Local Node State: MASTER
   Local Node Health State: HEALTHY
   Sub-Cluster Master UUID: 5b90382f-a7d7-8dc2-4358-246e96e1013a
   Sub-Cluster Backup UUID:
   Sub-Cluster UUID: 5292b573-6d0c-d8e2-b233-aa15b43a3740
   Sub-Cluster Membership Entry Revision: 0
   Sub-Cluster Member Count: 1
   Sub-Cluster Member UUIDs: 5b90382f-a7d7-8dc2-4358-246e96e1013a
   Sub-Cluster Membership UUID: aa767b5c-5cc5-a904-8224-246e96e1013a
   Unicast Mode Enabled: true
   Maintenance Mode State: OFF
   Config Generation: 2a3be2d8-0006-4b0f-a87a-887ed8242d79 3 2019-03-03T06:39:42.986
[root@xxxxx:~]


 
++ We are able to ping vSAN nodes using vmkping command.
 
[root@xxxx:/tmp] esxcfg-vmknic -l | grep -i vmk3
vmk3       20336                                   IPv4      172.x.x.x                           255.xx.2xx.0   172.x.x.x    00:50:56:66:aa:ed 1500    65535     true    STATIC              defaultTcpipStack
vmk3       20336                                   IPv6      xxxx::xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx                64                     00:50:56:66:aa:ed 1500    65535     true    STATIC, PREFERRED   defaultTcpipStack
[root@xxxx:/tmp]


 
[root@xxxx:~] vmkping -I vmk3 172.x.x.x
PING 172.16.200.10 (172.16.200.10): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 172.x.x.x   : icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=6.226 ms
64 bytes from 172.x.x.x   : icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=2.879 ms
64 bytes from 172.x.x.x   : icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.134 ms
 
--- 172.x.x.x ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 0.134/3.080/6.226 ms
[root@xxxxx:~] vmkping -I vmk3 172.xx.xx.11
PING 172.x.x.x  (172.x.x.x   ): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 172.x.x.x: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.200 ms
64 bytes from 172.x.x.x: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.163 ms
64 bytes from 172.x.x.x: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.152 ms
 
--- 172.x.x.x ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 0.152/0.172/0.200 ms


 

Cause

Looks like unicast registration is problem here. Unicastagent list was missing on two nodes

Resolution

Add the missing unicast agent entries
 
esxcli vsan cluster unicastagent add -t node -u <uuid> -U <unicastSupport> -a <ip> -p <port> -i <interface>

Then 

Example:
 
esxcli vsan cluster unicastagent add -t node -u 57ea62b0-9df6-6532-110c-9457a55a37d0 -U true -a XX.XXX.XXX.XX-p 12321 -i vmk3
 

[root@xxxxx:~] esxcli vsan cluster unicastagent list
NodeUuid                              IsWitness  Supports Unicast  IP Address      Port  Iface Name
------------------------------------  ---------  ----------------  -------------  -----  ----------
5b90378f-0b0b-2da4-933b-246e96e101b6          0              true  172.x.x.x  12321
5b90380e-927b-73ce-159f-246e96e1018a          0              true  172.x.x.x  12321
[root@xxxx:~]
 
[root@xxxxxx:~] esxcli vsan cluster unicastagent list
NodeUuid                              IsWitness  Supports Unicast  IP Address      Port  Iface Name
------------------------------------  ---------  ----------------  -------------  -----  ----------
5b90378f-0b0b-2da4-933b-246e96e101b6          0              true  172.x.x.x 12321
5b90382f-a7d7-8dc2-4358-246e96e1013a          0              true  172.x.x.x 12321

[root@xxxxx:~]
 
[root@xxxx:/tmp] esxcli vsan cluster unicastagent list
NodeUuid                              IsWitness  Supports Unicast  IP Address      Port  Iface Name
------------------------------------  ---------  ----------------  -------------  -----  ----------
5b90380e-927b-73ce-159f-246e96e1018a          0              true  172.x.x.x  12321
5b90382f-a7d7-8dc2-4358-246e96e1013a          0              true  172.x.x.x  12321
[root@xxxxx:/tmp]
 
 
[root@xxxx:~] esxcli vsan cluster get
Cluster Information
   Enabled: true
   Current Local Time: 2019-03-03T07:48:55Z
   Local Node UUID: 5b90382f-a7d7-8dc2-4358-246e96e1013a
   Local Node Type: NORMAL
   Local Node State: AGENT
   Local Node Health State: HEALTHY
   Sub-Cluster Master UUID: 5b90378f-0b0b-2da4-933b-246e96e101b6
   Sub-Cluster Backup UUID: 5b90380e-927b-73ce-159f-246e96e1018a
   Sub-Cluster UUID: 5292b573-6d0c-d8e2-b233-aa15b43a3740
   Sub-Cluster Membership Entry Revision: 3
   Sub-Cluster Member Count: 3
   Sub-Cluster Member UUIDs: 5b90378f-0b0b-2da4-933b-246e96e101b6, 5b90380e-927b-73ce-159f-246e96e1018a, 5b90382f-a7d7-8dc2-4358-246e96e1013a
   Sub-Cluster Membership UUID: d519d05b-a227-5621-66dc-246e96e101b6
   Unicast Mode Enabled: true
   Maintenance Mode State: OFF
   Config Generation: 2a3be2d8-0006-4b0f-a87a-887ed8242d79 3 2019-03-03T06:39:42.986

 

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Affected Products

VxRail Appliance Family

Products

VxRail Appliance Family
Article Properties
Article Number: 000056284
Article Type: Solution
Last Modified: 14 Apr 2022
Version:  4
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