Recently, I was moving my lab away from the VSAN beta code, and onto the ESXi 5.5 update 1 bits. I started fresh with my hosts, and simply upgraded my vCenter server. However, I ran into an issue once I had enabled VSAN. I had no storage profiles.
If I clicked on refresh, it came back with the error :
“there was a problem encountered while resyncing the VSAN providers”
Apparently, this is not an issue for new vCenter installs, and only seems to be affecting those who updated vCenter to update 1 from 5.5.
From the vCenter 5.5 Update 1 release notes:
“In Virtual SAN enabled clusters, the VM Storage Policies do not display Virtal SAN capabilities. When you navigate to vCenter Server home page >
There are 3 solutions offered - unfortunately, none of them worked for me.
- Restart the VMware vSphere Profile-Driven Storage Service.
- Move the host outside the cluster and add it back.
- If none of the storage providers are listed, when you navigate to the Storage Providers drop-down menu, move all the hosts to a new Virtual SAN enabled cluster.
Ultimately, I had to manually create the storage provider:
- Navigate to Storage Providers in the Manage tab of the vCenter object.
- Click the icon to register a new provider.
- Add in the following info for each participating host
- Name
- http://(host-ip-here):8080/version.xml
- Root and password
At this point, I was able to return and create a new storage profile for VSAN.
