Think we figured this one out. The two boxes we were using have two different sas cards in them. first one is a
Cisco 9400-8E 12 GB SAS-HBA
The secon one has a
LSI 9380-8E the LSI card was the one that was giving us an issue. It's on the Vmware support list. Not sure if there is a list for the MSA106 I have been looking.
Anyway swapped cards between hosts and the problem followed the card.
Hope this helps someone in the future.