I/O error and inaccessibility of local NVMe datastore after forced reboot of ESXi host

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

-Host showing "inaccessible" in vCenter Web Client

-Seen in vmkernel.log

     -[YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS]: cpu33:2097459)Vol3: 2128: Couldn't read volume header from naa.###############:#: I/O error

     and / or

     -[YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS]: cpu4:2098277)LVM: 7069: Forcing APD unregistration of devID ######-######-######-###### in state 1.

     and / or ###############

     -[YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS]: cpu27:2101766)LVM: 16104: Failed to open device eui.###############:# : I/O error

Environment

VMware vSAN 7.0.x

VMware ESXi 7.0 Update 3

Cause

Controller is not currently on the vSAN Controller I/O HCL

Resolution

Contact controller vendor and / or use a controller that is currently on the vSAN Controller I/O HCL