Hello
After installing drivers qfle3, qfle3f, qfle3i and qcnic as replacements for bnx2x for the Multifunctional NIC Broadcom Corporation QLogic 57840 10 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter on a 6.5 ESXi Host under a vCenter 6.5 Virtual Appliance the vpxa service stops and the host shown in vCenter as (not responding)
Error in vxpa.log shows
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2018-08-23T12:42:27.831Z error vpxa[8C9AB70] [Originator@6876 sub=vmomi.soapStub[1]]
--> Required property vlanRange is missing from data object of type FcoeConfig
-->
--> while parsing serialized DataObject of type vim.host.FcoeConfig
--> at line 14, column 931341
-->
--> while parsing property "fcoeConfiguration" of static type FcoeConfig
-->
--> while parsing serialized DataObject of type vim.host.PhysicalNic
--> at line 14, column 930928
-->
--> while parsing property "pnic" of static type ArrayOfPhysicalNic
-->
--> while parsing serialized DataObject of type vim.host.NetworkInfo
--> error parsing Any with xsiType HostNetworkInfo
--> at line 14, column 890431
-->
--> while parsing property "val" of static type anyType
-->
--> while parsing serialized DataObject of type vmodl.query.PropertyCollector.Change
--> at line 14, column 890381
-->
--> while parsing property "changeSet" of static type ArrayOfPropertyChange
-->
--> while parsing serialized DataObject of type vmodl.query.PropertyCollector.ObjectUpdate
--> at line 14, column 889464
-->
--> while parsing property "objectSet" of static type ArrayOfObjectUpdate
-->
--> while parsing serialized DataObject of type vmodl.query.PropertyCollector.FilterUpdate
--> at line 7, column 260946
-->
--> while parsing property "filterSet" of static type ArrayOfPropertyFilterUpdate
-->
--> while parsing serialized DataObject of type vmodl.query.PropertyCollector.UpdateSet
--> at line 7, column 42
-->
--> while parsing return value of type vmodl.query.PropertyCollector.UpdateSet, version 03de2be0
--> at line 7, column 0
-->
--> while parsing SOAP body
--> at line 6, column 0
-->
--> while parsing SOAP envelope
--> at line 2, column 0
-->
--> while parsing HTTP response for method waitForUpdates
--> on object of type vmodl.query.PropertyCollector
--> at line 1, column 0
2018-08-23T12:42:27.832Z warning vpxa[8C9AB70] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Closing Response processing in unexpected state: 3
2018-08-23T12:42:27.832Z verbose vpxa[8C9AB70] [Originator@6876 sub=VpxaHalCnxHostagent opID=WFU-41a7] Received WaitForUpdatesDone callback
2018-08-23T12:42:27.832Z error vpxa[8C9AB70] [Originator@6876 sub=VpxaHalCnxHostagent opID=WFU-41a7] Got error result from WaitForUpdates(): N5Vmomi5Fault11SystemError9ExceptionE(vmodl.fault.SystemError)
--> [context]zKq7AUoCAgAAAEoIUQAPdnB4YQAAH+MtbGlidm1hY29yZS5zbwAA4nsSAA/fDQGOZw1saWJ2bW9taS5zbwAB1DANATU0DQEpdw0BVUoNAhFZFnZweGEAAHNVIACeWSAA1aAgABRgLgNqbQBsaWJwdGhyZWFkLnNvLjAABN5LDWxpYmMuc28uNgA=[/context]
2018-08-23T12:42:27.833Z error vpxa[8C9AB70] [Originator@6876 sub=VpxaHalCnxHostagent opID=WFU-41a7] Fatal error while handling updates: N5Vmomi5Fault11SystemError9ExceptionE(vmodl.fault.SystemError)
--> [context]zKq7AUoCAgAAAEoIUQAPdnB4YQAAH+MtbGlidm1hY29yZS5zbwAA4nsSAA/fDQGOZw1saWJ2bW9taS5zbwAB1DANATU0DQEpdw0BVUoNAhFZFnZweGEAAHNVIACeWSAA1aAgABRgLgNqbQBsaWJwdGhyZWFkLnNvLjAABN5LDWxpYmMuc28uNgA=[/context]
2018-08-23T12:42:27.835Z error vpxa[8C9AB70] [Originator@6876 sub=vpxaInvtHostCnx opID=WFU-41a7] [VpxaInvtHost] Can't connect to hostd. Shutting down...
2018-08-23T12:42:27.835Z info vpxa[8C9AB70] [Originator@6876 sub=Default opID=WFU-41a7] [Vpxa] Shutting down now
"
If I
esxcli system module set --enabled=true --module=bnx2x
and
esxcli system module set --enabled=false --module=qfle3
and
reboot
< to be continued >