Setup:

1x vCenter 6.7 build 15976728

3x Hosts 6.7 build 15820472

VSAN disks on version 10.0

I’ve been having trouble with my home lab, I’m unable to get the vsan-dps service to start. I’m not sure when it stopped working, it only became apparent when I tried to create a backup of the vCenter and I got this error message.

Invalid vCenter Server Status: All required services are not up! Stopped services: ‘vsan-dps’

This is the error I get when I manually start the service.

root@vcenter [ ~ ]# service-control –start vsan-dps

Operation not cancellable. Please wait for it to finish…

Performing start operation on service vsan-dps…

Error executing start on service vsan-dps. Details {

    “detail”: [

        {

            “translatable”: “An error occurred while starting service ‘%(0)s'”,

            “args”: [

                “vsan-dps”

            ],

            “id”: “install.ciscommon.service.failstart”,

            “localized”: “An error occurred while starting service ‘vsan-dps'”

        }

    ],

    “problemId”: null,

    “resolution”: null,

    “componentKey”: null

}

Service-control failed. Error: {

    “detail”: [

        {

            “translatable”: “An error occurred while starting service ‘%(0)s'”,

            “args”: [

                “vsan-dps”

            ],

            “id”: “install.ciscommon.service.failstart”,

            “localized”: “An error occurred while starting service ‘vsan-dps'”

        }

    ],

    “problemId”: null,

    “resolution”: null,

    “componentKey”: null

}

 

I can’t seem to find much information on this service or any useful logs. Anyone else had to fault find this before ?