On OSA cluster, in the Update Tab, the PCI Device Intel VMD (PCI ID: 8086:28c0:8086:0000) shows incompatible with the cluster's ESXi 8.0U3.

Products

• VMware vSAN
• VMware vCenter Server 8.0

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

•  On OSA cluster, in the Update Tab, the PCI Device Intel VMD (IVMD) (PCI ID: 8086:28c0:8086:0000) shows incompatible with the cluster's ESXi 8.0U3.

  

• There is no listing in vSAN HCL with this specific PCI ID.

• But there is a vSAN HCL listing of the IVMD when entering just the VID (Vendor ID) and DID (Device ID) of the controller Broadcom HCL - Intel Volume Management Device.

• vSAN Skyline Health reports this device to be compatible:

  

• The below vSAN Skyline Health checks are all heathy for this controller, indicating that it is compatible:

  • SCSI Controller is VMware Certified.

  • Controller is VMware Certified for ESXi release.

  • Controller driver is VMware certified.

Environment

VMware vSAN 8.x

VMware vCenter 8.x

Cause

• The reason why vLCM reports the Intel VMD controller to be incompatible is due to a bug in the vLCM code which does not populate the supported releases if any of the device's PCI ID fields is zeroed out.

• The Intel VMD's PCI ID is 8086:28c0:8086:0000. It is in the format VID:DID:SVID:SDID.

• As seen above the SDID for the Intel VMD is '0000', due to which it has hit the known bug, which would result in vLCM marking this device as incompatible.

Resolution

• The fix for this issue is expected to be released in vSphere 9.1 (ESXi & vCenter).

• For now, the disk controller(s) hit by this bug must be manually validated against the Broadcom Compatibility List - Broadcom HCL.