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2V0-15.25 · Question #29

An administrator is responsible for a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) fleet. The administrator has been tasked with commissioning four ESX hosts for a new workload domain that uses vSAN Express…

The correct answer is B. The ESX hosts are not using vSAN ESA certified storage devices. VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 requires strict vSAN ESA hardware compatibility when creating a workload domain that uses vSAN Express Storage Architecture (ESA). During host validation, SDDC Manager and vSphere Client check whether each ESXi host meets ESA requirements, including…

Section 5 – Troubleshoot VCF Support Solutions

Question

An administrator is responsible for a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) fleet. The administrator has been tasked with commissioning four ESX hosts for a new workload domain that uses vSAN Express Storage Architecture (ESA) as the primary storage solution. During the host validation stage in vSphere client, the process fails with the following errors:

esx-l.wld.vcf.local. Failed to validate vSAN HCL status. esx-2.wld.vcf. local. Failed to validate vSAN HCL status. esx-3.wld.vcf.local. Failed to validate vSAN HCL status. esx~4.wid.vcf. local. Failed to validate vSAN HCL status. What Is the cause of the errors?

Options

  • AThe RAID controller in each ESX host is not configured to use RAID-O/Passthrough.
  • BThe ESX hosts are not using vSAN ESA certified storage devices.
  • CThe ESX hosts must have internet access to validate vSAN ESA compatibility.
  • DThe RAID controller in each ESX host needs to be reconfigured to use Tri-mode.

How the community answered

(33 responses)
  • A
    6% (2)
  • B
    82% (27)
  • C
    9% (3)
  • D
    3% (1)

Explanation

VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 requires strict vSAN ESA hardware compatibility when creating a workload domain that uses vSAN Express Storage Architecture (ESA). During host validation, SDDC Manager and vSphere Client check whether each ESXi host meets ESA requirements, including CPU generation, storage controller type, and--most importantly--ESA-certified NVMe storage devices. The validation errors provided: "Failed to validate vSAN HCL status" for every host indicate that the hosts do not meet the vSAN ESA HCL requirements. VCF 9.0 documentation states that ESA uses a next-generation log-structured filesystem requiring certified NVMe devices only, with no RAID controller dependencies. Unlike OSA, ESA eliminates disk groups, but it requires certified devices listed on the vSAN ESA HCL to pass host validation. If non-certified or unsupported NVMe/SAS devices are present, validation fails exactly

Topics

#vSAN ESA#HCL validation#certified storage devices#host commissioning

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