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  • 1.  no healthy upstream in Vcenter Server 8

    Posted Jul 13, 2023 04:37 PM

    Hi all,

    I am having problems in more than 2 Vcenter solutions that we deployed in the last 3 months.

    Without doing anything at some point the Vcenter VCSA stop working at show us a:

    no healthy upstream

     I connected to the VAMI and it works.

    I took a look at ethernet configuration and seems that all is ok.

    I checked the services and there are two of them that I think they need to be started.

    2023-07-13 11_58_26-Services - VMware Appliance Management - Opera.png

    I tried to start them manually but never starts. Also if I open the vcenter VM from the ESXI GUI, I can see this weird screen. Looks like something is corrupted, isn't it?

    2023-07-13 11_58_58-ESXI2 - VMware ESXi - Opera.png

    I checked all licenses and all of them are OK too. I Tried to take a look at logs, but couldn't find anything that helps.

    I tried to restart the VM, delete all the nvram files, but I don't know what more I can do before reinstalling it again.

    Any help?

    Regards,



  • 2.  RE: no healthy upstream in Vcenter Server 8

    Posted Jul 13, 2023 05:04 PM

    Just ran through this same challenge with support. Log into vCenter via SSH and run the command df-h. Check if you have any directories near full or full in the Use% column, In my case, the /dev/mapper/log_vg-log (/storage/log) directory was at 95%. After clearing some old files out, I was able to start the all the required services. Additionally, we expanded disk 5 from 10GB to 50GB to prevent that disk from filling up again. If none of my fixes help you, I would encourage you to open up a support request and work with a VMware Technician.



  • 3.  RE: no healthy upstream in Vcenter Server 8

    Posted Jul 13, 2023 05:46 PM

    Thank you Elwell,

    I checked that but no disk over 20% utilization. 

    I will open a support ticket then.

     

    Regards,



  • 4.  RE: no healthy upstream in Vcenter Server 8

    Posted Jul 14, 2023 12:24 PM

    Keep this in mind to save you a lot of grief down the road....

    If you expanded the /storage/log volume and you ever need to restore vCenter from backup, it will fail at stage 2 unless you do the following as soon as stage 1 completes, before you click to start stage 2

    1. Edit the VM settings and change disk 5 to match what size it was set to. When you take vCenter backups, it includes the size of each disk in the .json file it uses to restore.  If any of the disks don't match, stage 2 will error out on you. 
    2. Open the console to the new vCenter from the ESXi server it lives on and login as root.
    3. Change to bash shell
    4. run this script to expand the volume : /usr/lib/applmgmt/support/scripts/autogrow.sh
    5. Continue on to stage 2

    Question to both of you : I just upgraded one of my sites from 7.0.3 to 8.01.00200 .  How long after you upgraded did you start seeing this problem?