Alert "All shared datastores failed on the host" is displayed on the vCenter Server UI
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Alert "All shared datastores failed on the host" is displayed on the vCenter Server UI

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Article ID: 371396

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Products

VMware vSphere ESXi VMware vCenter Server

Issue/Introduction

  • Alert "All shared datastores failed on the host" is displayed in vCenter Server UI in the ESXi host summary page
  • The datastores are mounted and accessible
  • This is stale message and no real impact is seen at virtual machine or user level.
  • The alert reappears even after acknowledging the alarm or set the alarm to green in vSphere client. 
  • This can happen in HCI environments like HPE SimpliVity

 

Environment

VMware vSphere ESXi

VMware vCenter Server

Cause

This alert is triggered during storage issues and the backing devices of the datastores have experienced a PDL

This alert can also be triggered in HCI environments during controller maintenance or upgrades

This alert is the result of a stale entry from "vmware-sps" and the "vpxd" services

Resolution

  • Restart "vpxd" and "vmware-sps" services on the vCenter Server to clear the stale entries

Stopping, Starting or Restarting VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.x & above services 

      OR

  • Reboot the vCenter Server appliance.