CLOMD liveness reports abnormal state from vSAN Health UI

Products

• VMware vSAN

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

CLOMD liveness reports abnormal state from vSAN Health UI while the service is actually running and operational.

Environment

VMware vSAN 6.x

Cause

The possible cause for this issue is either improper witness replacement or multiple PREFERRED_FAULT_DOMAIN entries can exist in CMMDS.

Resolution

The issue is fixed in vSAN 7.x versions and later.

If the above symptoms and issue matches, please contact Broadcom Support to investigate the issue in latest versions.

Additional Information

Impact/Risks:

As with any deletion, extreme caution should be taken that only CMMDS entries that are no longer needed are removed.