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The failure is host-specific because the KMS is online and reachable from the other hosts, and those hosts remain healthy with encryption enabled. In vSAN Data-at-Rest Encryption, vCenter works with the external KMS to manage the Key Encryption Key (KEK). ESX hosts use the KEK to unlock the Data Encryption Keys that protect encrypted vSAN disk data. When a host reboots, it must retrieve the required encryption key before encrypted vSAN disk groups can be mounted. If the host’s trust relationship, certificate, or KMS identity relationship is invalid or missing, that host cannot retrieve the key, and its encrypted disk groups remain unmounted. A Deep Rekey changes encryption material but does not repair a broken host-to-KMS trust relationship. Restarting vCenter is not the required fix because other hosts are functioning normally. TPM failure is not the best explanation because the error explicitly states that retrieval from the KMS failed. Reference topics: vSAN Data-at-Rest Encryption, External KMS Trust, Key Retrieval, Encrypted Disk Group Mounting.

NFS v3 is the best recommendation because the scenario provides only Ethernet-based host connectivity and no budget for additional hardware. Fibre Channel would require appropriate FC HBAs, SAN zoning, and array presentation to all hosts. The provided hosts only have Ethernet NICs and local boot/storage devices, so they are not prepared for FC without additional hardware. VMware Cloud Foundation supports NFS as principal storage for VI workload domains, but the supported principal NFS protocol version is NFS v3. NFS v4.1 is supported as supplemental storage, not as principal storage for this use case. The documentation also states that when NFS is used as principal storage with vSphere Lifecycle Manager images, only two hosts are required, matching this two-host scenario. Fibre Channel over Ethernet is not the appropriate supported principal storage option in this VCF storage model. Therefore, NFS v3 uses the existing network capability, avoids new hardware spend, and aligns with the supported VCF principal storage model. Reference topics: Principal Storage, NFS Storage Model, VI Workload Domain Storage, Fibre Channel Prerequisites.

The cluster must not include hosts from different subnets or networks (L3).

The default management vSphere cluster must already be stretched.

The cluster must not include DPU-backed hosts.

The cluster must not share a vSAN Storage Policy with any other cluster.

To stretch a vSAN cluster in a VCF Workload Domain, the environment must satisfy specific VCF stretch prerequisites and avoid unsupported configurations. The default management vSphere cluster must already be stretched so the management plane remains available if an availability zone fails. The workload cluster must not include hosts from different subnets or Layer 3 networks because the stretch workflow expects supported site and network placement assumptions for the cluster being stretched. The cluster must also not include DPU-backed hosts, because clusters with DPU-backed hosts are excluded from this stretch operation. In addition, the cluster must not share a vSAN Storage Policy with any other cluster, because shared policies can create policy scope and compliance conflicts during stretch configuration. SSH does not need to be manually activated on all hosts as a prerequisite. The default management cluster being “not stretched” is the opposite of the required condition. Host self-signed certificates are not the listed blocking condition for this workflow. Reference topics: Stretch vSAN Cluster in VCF, Workload Domain Stretch Prerequisites, vSAN Storage Policy Constraints, Unsupported Stretch Configurations.