This article is part of a series of articles about issues I encountered during implementation of a vSphere stretched cluster based on vSphere 6.7 U1.
You can find the introduction article here
Issue 3
This issue is irritating, to say at least.
You configured your first ESXi host in a cluster, polished it etc… and created a host profile from this host. And then it should be easy to configure the other hosts. But, when you apply the host profile…. the host disconnects (because of a reboot….)… but never comes back….
What happened ??
What happened is that in the wisdom of the vSphere environment the vCenter instructed the host to delete vmk0… yes the kernel interface that vCenter uses to connect to ESXi (assuming the vSphere host is clean installed and has just one kernel port). Delete it to create vmk0 again…..
But it never gets to that part….
Do you recognize this issue ??
I googled for this issue and found blog posts going back to vSphere 5.1. So it looks like a difference in interpretation of how it should work.
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