Cluster switchover fails due to ReleaseDiskPRFailure on a WSFC cluster using clustered VMDKs.

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

• When switching a WSFC cluster, the ReleaseDiskPRFailure error occurs.
• No problems are observed with the WSFC on vSphere configuration.
• The vmware.log shows a reservation conflict as shown below.
  YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss.SSSZ In(05) vcpu-0 - NVME-VMK: nvme1:0: RESERVATION ACQUIRE Command failed. Status: 0x0/0x83.
• No problems are observed from a storage perspective.

Environment

VMware vSphere ESXi 8.x

Cause

This issue may occur if a third-party monitoring agent running on the guest OS is monitoring the shared disk, causing the reservation to not be released.

Resolution

Check whether a third-party monitoring agent is running on the guest OS.

For details, please contact your guest OS support.

Additional Information

Guidelines for Microsoft Clustering on vSphere

Supported Configuration Guidelines for Microsoft Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) with shared disks

Clustered vmdk datastore LUN support check