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Host profile cannot handle more than one vmk# ports that are enabled with different services in the same dvs portgroup (1035431)

Symptoms

When there are more than one vmk# ports that are enabled with different services in the same dvs portgroup, you experience these symptoms:

  • Host Compliance check returns the error:

    Host Compliance Failures
    Failures Against Host Profile
    Given Services are not enabled on the port group <portgroupname>
    Given Services are not enabled on the port group <portgroupname>

  • The ESX host declares that it is not compliant with itself
  • The compliance check is successful if vMotion and FT logging are disabled in the vmkernel port
  • On the vCenter Server, the PyVmomiServer.log (%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\PyVmomiServer.log), you see entries similar to:

    [2011-02-10 11:41:56,338 root DEBUG] Validating FixedDvsVirtualNicServices
    [2011-02-10 11:41:56,338 root DEBUG] Expression failed compliance test on network.dvsHostNic["key-vim-profile-host-DvsHostVnicProfile-dvSwitch-vmNetw356-management"]-nicType
    [2011-02-10 11:41:56,338 root DEBUG] Validating CheckFixedDvsPortGroupSelection
    [2011-02-10 11:41:56,338 root DEBUG] Expression failed compliance test on network.dvsHostNic["key-vim-profile-host-DvsHostVnicProfile-dvSwitch-vmNetw356-management"]-inner
    [2011-02-10 11:41:56,339 root DEBUG] validating CompositeExpression ChildCount = 2 [network.dvsHostNic["key-vim-profile-host-DvsHostVnicProfile-dvSwitch-vmNetw356"]]
    [2011-02-10 11:41:56,339 root DEBUG] Validating FixedDvsVirtualNicServices
    [2011-02-10 11:41:56,339 root DEBUG] Expression failed compliance test on network.dvsHostNic["key-vim-profile-host-DvsHostVnicProfile-dvSwitch-vmNetw356"]-nicType
    [2011-02-10 11:41:56,339 root DEBUG] Validating CheckFixedDvsPortGroupSelection
    [2011-02-10 11:41:56,341 root DEBUG] Expression failed compliance test on network.dvsHostNic["key-vim-profile-host-DvsHostVnicProfile-dvSwitch-vmNetw356"]
    [2011-02-10 11:41:56,341 root DEBUG] validating CompositeExpression ChildCount = 2 [network.dvsHostNic["key-vim-profile-host-DvsHostVnicProfile-dvSwitch-vmNetw356-vmotion"]]
    [2011-02-10 11:41:56,341 root DEBUG] Validating FixedDvsVirtualNicServices
    [2011-02-10 11:41:56,341 root DEBUG] Validating CheckFixedDvsPortGroupSelection
    [2011-02-10 11:41:56,342 root DEBUG] Expression failed compliance test on network

Resolution

To work around this issue, try one of these options:

  • Move each vmk# port that has a service enabled to its individual dvPortgroup within the same dvSwitch. If you do not have sufficient dvportgroups to accomplish this, you may have to create more dvportgroups on the dvSwitch. For more information, see vNetwork Distributed PortGroup (dvPortGroup) Configuration (1010593).

  • Disable the compliance check for the services by editing the profile. When you disable the compliance check, it does not validate these services (vMotion, FT) on the dvSwitch.

    To disable the compliance check:
  1. Edit the profile of the services and navigate to Host virtual NIC folder > <service> profile > Services for the virtual NIC policy, where  <service> is in the format <dvswitch-name> : <dv portgroup name> : <service>.
  2. In the right pane, go to Compliance details and deselect the checkbox which lists the validation rule.
  3. Click OK to save the profile.
  4. Repeat this procedure for each service profile.

Tags

compliance-check-fails

Update History

01/31/2013 - Added vCenter Server 5.1.x to Products

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