Witness host not found

Products

• VMware vSAN

Issue/Introduction

After Migration to new vCenter vSAN cluster is reporting as Witness host not found.  

 

 

Environment

VMware vSAN (All Versions)

Cause

The stretched cluster no longer contains a valid witness.

Resolution

Verify object health is in a reduced available state with no inaccessible objects, and proceed with disabling the stretched cluster configuration and then reconfigure using the correct witness host. 

This will correct the error and allow the cluster to sync correctly. 

If you have any additional questions, or concerns regarding this issue please open a case with VMware Support for further investigation.

Additional Information

Reference articles 

Migrating a vSAN Stretch cluster to a redeployed vCenter as vCenter couldn't be recovered / Correcting a stretch cluster not displaying correctly in vCenter after migration 

Moving a vSAN Cluster from one vCenter Server to another (= Migrating )