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vSAN File Services fails to create file share with error Failed to create the VDFS File System.

Duncan Epping · Oct 4, 2022 · Leave a Comment

Last week on our internal slack channel one of the field folks had a question. He was hitting a situation where vSAN File Services failed when creating a file share with the error “Failed to create the VDFS File System”. We went back and forth a bit and after a while I jumped on Zoom to look at the issue, and troubleshoot the environment. After testing various combinations of policies I noticed that a particular policy worked, whole another policy did not. At first it looked like that stretched cluster policies would not work but after creating a new policy with a different name it did work. One thing left, the name of the policy. It appears that the use of special characters in the VM Storage Policy name results in the error “Failed to create the VDFS File System”. In this particular case the VM Storage Policy that was used was “stretched – mirrored FTT=1 RAID-1”. The character that was causing the issue was the “=” character.

How do you resolve it? Simply change the name of the policy. For instance, the following would work: “stretched – mirrored FTT1 RAID-1”.

Sharing my vSAN 7.0 U1 webinar, watch it now!

Duncan Epping · Dec 9, 2020 ·

I recorded a webinar a while back. It was streamed last week, and I figured that as I have the recording here, I may as well share it with you. In this webinar I discuss many of the new features which were introduced as part of vSAN 7.0 U1, features like HCI Mesh, IO Insight, enhanced File Service capabilities, and much more. The session is about 40 minutes long, but of course, the great thing about youtube is that you can play it at a different speed. Hope you will enjoy it! Click on the video below, or simply follow this link to youtube. Make sure to like the video, and subscribe to my channel as well!

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Duncan Epping is a Chief Technologist in the Office of CTO of the Cloud Platform BU at VMware. He is a VCDX (# 007), the author of the "vSAN Deep Dive", the “vSphere Clustering Technical Deep Dive” series, and the host of the "Unexplored Territory" podcast.

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