VMware: The datastore “name” is connected to one or more pre-4.1 hosts that do not support Storage I/O Control
Last week I was configuring some new vSphere 5.1 (Enterprise) hosts in a dedicated cluster and created some VMFS 5.58 datastores at the Dell Eq. PS6000 SAN with latest firmware, after configuring SIOC I received this error message:
The datastore is connected to one or more pre-4.1 hosts that do not support Storage I/O Control.
That’s weird, I’ve reinstalled all hosts (not updated) and created new datastores, there are no vSphere 4.1 hosts in this cluster (even connected to the datastore) and the PS6000 supports SIOC..
Solution:
Not really a solution.. but you can only configure SIOC with the Enterprise Plus license.. crap!
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Oke thanks for finding this out
I got this too, stupid Enterprise Plus
Excellent post. Thanks.
Might be nice if VMWare changed the error to read “The datastore “name” is connected to one or more pre-4.1 hosts that do not support Storage I/O Control or license version is not Enterprise Plus”
Could have saved us all the time it took to look this up!
However, I must say – Thanks for the info!