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  • 1.  Intel® SSD D5-P5316 Series SSDPF2NV153TZ on HCL DB

    Posted Feb 27, 2022 05:22 AM

    Hello.
    I installed four Intel SSD D5-P5316 in my vsan and added intel NVME driver for this model with update manager on all hosts. but I have an error in "vsan skyline health>hardware compatibility>SCSI Controller". this type of ssd not listed in HCL DB and it seems the warning is for that.
    how can I solve this?



  • 2.  RE: Intel® SSD D5-P5316 Series SSDPF2NV153TZ on HCL DB

    Posted Feb 27, 2022 06:57 AM

    I don't see the device on the HCL? That is why the alert is thrown, you can silence the alert, but why use a device which is not certified (yet?)?



  • 3.  RE: Intel® SSD D5-P5316 Series SSDPF2NV153TZ on HCL DB

    Posted Feb 28, 2022 06:57 AM

    Thank you.
    Do you mean I should wait for new HCL and silence Alarm?
    Is there any problem with using this type of SSD?



  • 4.  RE: Intel® SSD D5-P5316 Series SSDPF2NV153TZ on HCL DB

    Posted Feb 28, 2022 08:27 AM

    Yeah you could silence it, but keep in mind that you now run an unsupported configuration. Why did you buy these devices?



  • 5.  RE: Intel® SSD D5-P5316 Series SSDPF2NV153TZ on HCL DB

    Posted Mar 05, 2022 05:09 AM

     I searched VMware compatibility guide and found this device. then I added that firmware to ESXi. so in attention to performance of these devices I bought them.

    https://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/detail.php?deviceCategory=io&productid=53458&releaseid=369&deviceCategory=io&details=1&partner=46&deviceTypes=22&page=1&display_interval=500&sortColumn=Partner&sortOrder=Asc



  • 6.  RE: Intel® SSD D5-P5316 Series SSDPF2NV153TZ on HCL DB

    Posted Mar 07, 2022 09:08 AM

    one thing to keep in mind, vSAN has a separate HCL/VCG: http://vmwa.re/vsanhclc



  • 7.  RE: Intel® SSD D5-P5316 Series SSDPF2NV153TZ on HCL DB
    Best Answer

    Posted Feb 28, 2022 09:44 AM

     , Is this a homelab or a production environment? If the latter then it is not advisable to use any unsupported devices unless you intend to support them yourself (which you are basically committing to doing by knowingly using unsupported devices).

     

    The vSAN HCL has drives and controllers added to it once:

    1. Hardware vendor has tested these on vSAN (on specific versions and for specific purposes e.g. cache-tier/capacity-tier), is happy with results and then

    2. Has forwarded these results to VMware certification teams for further testing and if they pass they are added (and/or with whatever necessary qualifying parameters e.g. doesn't support hot-swap etc.).

     

    In this case I see no pending/ongoing hardware certification PRs for this device, only ESXi certification PRs and hence it looks like 1. hasn't been done here (other than possibility of other non-PR internal threads etc.). I also see P4326 which it looks like this device is successor of (based on the spec sheet comparison to it and other similarities) is not on the vSAN HCL and looks to have not passed 2. testing when last put forward (note that this isn't a definitive thing e.g. a drive may fail specific required tests for various reasons, it is possible these fail-causes may be fixed in driver/firmware/other and a device pass when put forward again).