How to procced when encountering error "[Device-Identifier] is an SSD and can not be used as a vSAN HDD" when managing a vSAN disk group on CLI.

Products

• VMware vSAN

Issue/Introduction

• When adding a disk to an existing disk group or creating a new disk group, you may encounter the error as in the example below:

[root@localhost:~] esxcli vsan storage add -s naa.########01 -d naa.########02 -d naa.########03 -d naa.########04
naa.########02 is an SSD and can not be used as a vSAN HDD

• This error may be encountered in hybrid and in All-flash vSAN clusters.

Environment

VMware vSAN 7.0.x

VMware vSAN 8.0.x

Resolution

To correct this issue, the impacted devices have to be labelled with a tag that identifies them as capacity devices, by using the command:

esxcli vsan storage tag add -d [Device-Identifier] -t capacityFlash