After disabling vSphere with Tanzu, some hosts in the cluster keep sending message from clusterAgent service

Products

• VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service

Issue/Introduction

After disabling vSphere with Tanzu, some hosts in the cluster keep sending message from clusterAgent service

 

Environment

vSphere with Tanzu 8.x

Resolution

1. Compared the normal hosts with the abnormal hosts, the ClusterAgent service keeps crashing in the abnormal hosts.

2. After restarting the clusterAgent service, the service is back to normal

 

For more information about clusterAgent, please refer to:

https://www.vmware.com/docs/vmw-introduction-vsphere-clustering-service-vcls

Additional Information

https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article/312111/the-clusteragent-service-may-slowly-fill.html

https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article/385346/hosts-constantly-sending-dns-queries.html