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Element Create Datastore Operation fails due to volume not visible to host

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Applies to

  • NetApp SolidFire Cluster
  • NetApp Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure (HCI) Cluster
  • Management Services for Element Software and NetApp HCI v2.23.64
  • NetApp Element Plug-in for vSphere Client v5.1
  • VMware ESXi v7.0 Update 3

Configuration Details:

  • Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP) enable on all volumes
  • Dynamic Discovery enabled on all hosts
  • No volume access groups

Issue

After executing the NetApp Element Plug-in Wizard to create a new volume and datastore from within a Netapp SolidFire or HCI cluster, the volume is presented to the VMware host, but the host itself seems to indicate it’s already logged into the new volume/target with the expected 2 iscsi sessions. As a result, the NetApp Element Plug-In is not able to access the new volume and the following message below is displayed from the vCenter vSphere UI:

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