Hi everyone,
I searched all over the web for two days, but I still haven't found anything that helped to solve my case.
I have ESXi 6.7 installed on a USB drive running on a DELL Poweredge R710. I know this particular version of ESXi is not supported by my machine, but except for the fact that loses configuration on every reboot I didn’t have any other issue.
Long story short:
The bootbank folder points to tmp
bootbank -> /tmp
while locker and scratch point to an actual data store
locker -> /vmfs/volumes/5f9cb458……..-……..a12/.locker
scratch -> /vmfs/volumes/5f9cb458-…………….a12/.locker
I did some troubleshooting by following those KBs: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2149444 https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/51907
Even by appending the ‘devListStabilityCount’ parameter in the ESXi boot options, with a delay of up to 300 seconds, the storage-path-claim service is still not delayed and always starts before the datastores are accessible (see logs below).
Without appending the ‘devListStabilityCount’ parameter, the delay between the below logs is always a minute of each other (always ‘…storage-path-claim’ first, then‘…The datastore is now accessible on this host.’
[root@localhost:~] grep storage-path-claim /var/log/sysboot.log
[2020-11-03 01:01:31.851747 - 2020-11-03 01:04:54.502981] sysboot: storage-path-claim
[root@localhost:~] grep 'mounted.*rw' var/run/log/vobd.log|tail -1
2020-11-03T01:05:55.167Z: [vmfsCorrelator] 284840394us: [esx.audit.vmfs.volume.mounted] File system [MainStorage, 5f9cb458-…………….. on volume 5f9cb458-7d8b9622-………… has been mounted in 'rw' mode. The datastore is now accessible on this host.
If it helps, this is what I get when I issue the below command.
[root@localhost:~] localcli --plugin-dir=/usr/lib/vmware/esxcli/int/ boot system restore --bootbanks
VmkCtl: Did not find a valid boot device, symlinking /bootbank to /tmp
Did anyone see this issue before and knows a solution for it?
I will much appreciate any kind of help and advice on how to tackle this.
Thanks in advance!