"Local DP enclosure" status is "Dead / error"

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

"Local DP enclosure" showing the status is "Dead / error"

Environment

Esxi.

Cause

In iDRAC all the hardware components show as healthy.

# esxcli vsan health cluster list
Health Test Name                                    Status
--------------------------------------------------  ------
Overall health findings                             yellow (Cluster health issue)
Cluster                                             yellow
  Advanced vSAN configuration in sync               green
  vSAN daemon liveness                              green
  vSAN Disk Balance                                 green
  Resync operations throttling                      green
  Software version compatibility                    green
  Disk format version                               yellow
Network                                             green
  Hosts with connectivity issues                    green
  vSAN cluster partition                            green
  All hosts have a vSAN vmknic configured           green
  vSAN: Basic (unicast) connectivity check          green
  vSAN: MTU check (ping with large packet size)     green
  vMotion: Basic (unicast) connectivity check       green
  vMotion: MTU check (ping with large packet size)  green
  Network latency check                             green
Physical disk                                       green
  Operation health                                  green
  Congestion                                        green
  Component limit health                            green
  Component metadata health                         green
  Memory pools (heaps)                              green
  Memory pools (slabs)                              green
  Disk capacity                                     green
Data                                                green
  vSAN object health                                green
  vSAN object format health                         green
Capacity utilization                                green
  Storage space                                     green
  Component                                         green
  What if the most consumed host fails              green
Performance service                                 green
  Stats DB object                                   green
  Stats primary election                            green
  Performance data collection                       green
  All hosts contributing stats                      green
  Stats DB object conflicts                         green

# esxcli vsan cluster get
Cluster Information
   Enabled: true
   Current Local Time: 2025-02-26T21:53:16Z
   Local Node UUID: 64c373c6-f9ae-7140-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxx
   Local Node Type: NORMAL
   Local Node State: AGENT
   Local Node Health State: HEALTHY
   Sub-Cluster Master UUID: 615dc7d3-745a-7810-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxx
   Sub-Cluster Backup UUID: 615c7fba-763c-eb5a-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx
   Sub-Cluster UUID: 52eeed25-50ab-d7b3-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxx
   Sub-Cluster Membership Entry Revision: 50
   Sub-Cluster Member Count: 20

Resolution

Host was put into maintenance mode and reboot was performed. Reboot of the host fixed the issue.