vSAN iSCSI first-time enablement with CHAP authentication fails with an internal error
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vSAN iSCSI first-time enablement with CHAP authentication fails with an internal error

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Article ID: 326977

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Products

VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:
When enabling vSAN iSCSI for the very first time on the vSAN cluster, if the "Authentication" is set to "CHAP", the enablement might fail with error messages like "Cannot complete the operation. See the event log for details. <snipped> message = '_CreateHomeObject failed, error is Failed to validate Set'"

Environment

VMware vSphere ESXi 7.0.1
VMware vSphere ESXi 7.0.0
VMware vSphere ESXi 7.0.2

Cause

Persisting vSAN iSCSI default configuration into config store failed with mandatory field unset.

Resolution

Upgrade vCenter/ESXi to 7.0U3c