Error: Not able to configure PBM for vCenter server

Products

• VMware Integrated OpenStack

Issue/Introduction

• vSphere upgraded to vSphere 8.x
• Running VIO version less than 7.3
• Cinder volume service not functioning properly
• Cinder-volume service showing down
$ openstack volume service list
+------------------+--------------------------------------+-------+---------+-------+----------------------------+---------+---------------+
| Binary           | Host                                 | Zone  | Status  | State | Updated At                 | Cluster | Backend State |
+------------------+--------------------------------------+-------+---------+-------+----------------------------+---------+---------------+

| cinder-scheduler | cinder-scheduler-0                   | <zone>| enabled | up    | 2026-01-22T18:01:56.000000 | None    | None          |
| cinder-scheduler | cinder-scheduler-1                   | <zone>| enabled | up    | 2026-01-22T18:01:53.000000 | None    | None          |
| cinder-volume    | cinder-volume-0@<driver info>        | <zone>| enabled | down  | 2026-01-22T16:25:24.000000 | None    | None          |
| cinder-volume    | cinder-volume-1@<driver info>        | <zone>| enabled | down  | 2026-01-22T16:25:30.000000 | None    | None          |
+------------------+--------------------------------------+-------+---------+-------+----------------------------+---------+---------------+
• cinder logs showing similar to:
  Not able to configure PBM for vCenter server: 8.0.3

Environment

7.x

Cause

VMware Integrated Openstack 7.3 is the only version that will run on vSphere 8.x.  

Resolution

This is an unsupported configuration.