vmware / vmware/photon

Install of Photon4-VM beta on ESXi on arm using NFS from vSAN as datastore

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Description

Tried to install Photon4 for arm using an rPI 4 with 8GB RAM.
rPI running ESXi for Arm using fling (7.0.0-17068872)
rPI has no local VMFS storage attached. Datastore is mounted using NFS3 provided by all-Flash vSAN based on ESX 7u1a.
Deployment of the "photon-aarch64-uefi-hw13-4.0-d98e681a9.ova" works well.
Powering on the VM lists a lot of errors
dmesg_rPI_NFSfromvSAN.txt
on the console (see attached dmesg output)
VM it self runs ok.

example:
[ 7.836761] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x1c000 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
[ 7.836943] ata1.00: irq_stat 0x40000008
[ 7.837029] ata1.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
[ 7.837123] ata1.00: cmd 61/00:70:50:83:01/0a:00:00:00:00/40 tag 14 ncq dma 1310720 ou
res 41/02:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x401 (device error)
[ 7.837429] ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
[ 7.837655] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
[ 7.837691] ata1: EH complete

and also

[ 9.828418] Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 9258
[ 9.830989] Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 9259

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Research direction

Start with the attached dmesg_rPI_NFSfromvSAN.txt and the reported ATA and Buffer I/O errors from sda2. Review the Photon4 ARM OVA deployment on ESXi for Arm using the NFS3 datastore backed by vSAN. Done means determining the cause of the errors and confirming whether they can be resolved without affecting the VM, which currently runs.

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Assessment

Tech stack
linux, raspberry-pi
Domain
infrastructure, operating-systems
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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