Newly added NVMe disk not visible on ESXi host
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Newly added NVMe disk not visible on ESXi host

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Article ID: 400545

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Products

VMware vSAN

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

  • Newly added NVMe disk might not be visible from the vCenter UI, Cluster > Host > Configure > Storage Devices.

  • Hardware management console shows the NVMe disk as Healthy.

  • NVMe disk will not be listed from the ESXi command line as well using the command 'esxcfg-scsidevs -A'.

Environment

VMware vSAN 7.x
VMware vSAN 8.x

Cause

The issue could be due to the hardware faults, physical damage, power-related issues or improper seating of the NVMe device.


var/run/log/vmkernel.log of the ESXi host will report warning as 'Inserted adapter seems broken, or removed. Aborting hot-add operation'.

2025-05-28T09:13:45.592Z Wa(180) vmkwarning: cpu68:2097628)WARNING: PCIEHP: 1495: 0000:62:05.0: hotplug slot:0x10 Inserted adapter seems broken, or removed (slotStatusPDS: 1). Aborting hot-add operation.

Resolution

Please engage the hardware vendor to investigate on the issue with the NVMe device.

 

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