Skyline Health alerting with: 'vSAN Object Health', 'Stats DB Object', 'vSAN Cluster Configuration Consistency' on a newly deployed Stretched Cluster

Products

• VMware vSAN

Issue/Introduction

Newly deployed Stretched Cluster is fully formed but user is unable to create any new VMs. 

Skyline Health may display some or all of the following alerts:

'vSAN Object Health'

'Stats DB Object'

'vSAN Cluster Configuration Consistency'

Environment

vSAN 7.x, vSAN 8.x

Cause

Required port 2233 found closed between Witness Appliance and ESXi nodes.

Resolution

Adjust firewall rules adjust to allow traffic on all required ports listed on https://ports.broadcom.com/home/vSAN.

Additional Information

https://ports.broadcom.com/home/vSAN
https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-cis/vsan/vsan/8-0/vsan-network-design/understanding-vsan-networking/network-requirements-for-vsan/vsan-network-port-requirements.html