“Deprecated VMFS volume(s) found on the host” error in ESXi hosts
Article ID: 317634
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Products
VMware vSphere ESXi
Issue/Introduction
Symptoms:
ESXi 6.0 hosts without any VMFS volumes or unmounted datastores report the warning:
Deprecated VMFS volume(s) found on the host. Please consider upgrading volume(s) to the latest version
Deprecated VMFS volume(s) found on the host. Please consider upgrading volume(s) to the latest version
Note: For additional symptoms and log entries, see the Additional Information section.
Cause
When a LUN is presented to the host for the first time, the host fails to detect the version of the file system and, therefore, is unable to compare it with the list of valid file system to return a match.
Resolution
This issue is resolved in ESXi 6.0 Patch Release ESXi600-201608401, available at VMware Patch Downloads. For more information on downloading patch, see How to download patches in Customer Connect (1021623)
To work around this issue if you do not want to upgrade, restart the management agents on the impacted hosts. For more information, see Restarting the Management agents in ESXi (1003490)
To work around this issue if you do not want to upgrade, restart the management agents on the impacted hosts. For more information, see Restarting the Management agents in ESXi (1003490)
Note: Restarting management agents does not impact the virtual machine power state. Also, ESXi host does not required any reboot.
Additional Information
You experience these additional symptoms:
- In the /var/log/hostd.log file, you see entries similar to:
VMFS volume [/vmfs/volumes/xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxx] of version [0] is not supportedwarning hostd[xxxx] [Originator@6876 sub=Hostsvc.DatastoreSystem] UpdateConfigIssues: Deprecated VMFS filesystems detected. These volumes should be upgraded to the latest version.
- The Hardware tab in ESXi might report this error:
CIM error: enumInstances Class not found on ESXi server
How to download patches in Customer Connect
ESXi ホストに廃止された VMFS ボリュームの警告が報告される
ESXi 主机中出现 “在主机上找到已弃用的 VMFS 卷 (Deprecated VMFS volume(s) found on the host)” 错误
O erro “Deprecated VMFS volume(s) found on the host” nos hosts ESXi
Error “Deprecated VMFS volume(s) found on the host” en hosts ESXi
Fehler „Veraltete(s) VMFS-Volume(s) wurde(n) auf dem Host gefunden“ (Deprecated VMFS volume(s) found on the host) in ESXi-Hosts
VMware ESXi 6.0, Patch ESXi600-201608401-BG: Updates esx-base, vsanhealth, vsan VIBs
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