Hello everyone. This is the fifth and the final part to the blog series “vSAN Health Checks Explained”. Before we proceed to the contents, let me thank the readers for providing valuable feedback. I am glad to see that this really helped many of the Newbies to vSAN to understand the concepts properly and this…… Continue reading vSAN Health Checks Explained – Part 5

Hello everyone, this is the fourth part of the series “vSAN Health Checks Explained”. I hope the previous posts were useful and thanks for the feedback. Lets now move on to the next category “Performance Service” This test is applicable only when Performance Service is enabled for the vSAN cluster (which is the recommendation). When…… Continue reading vSAN Health Checks Explained – Part 4

Hello everyone, I hope Parts 1 & 2 were useful. In this third part, we will go through the other health checks, lets start with “Physical Disks” category. Operation Health This test checks the physical disk operation status of all hosts in the cluster like hard and soft errors, issues with reading metadata, congestion, accessibility…… Continue reading vSAN Health Checks Explained – Part 3

Hello everyone, in the last post we’ve gone through the health tests under the “Cluster” category. Now, lets go through the next category “Network” Hosts disconnected from VC This alert is triggered when we have a communication issue over the management vmkernel port. vSAN cluster uses its dedicated port groups and might be able to…… Continue reading vSAN Health Checks Explained – Part 2

Hello everyone, In this blog post we will walk through the health check options available with vSAN 6.7. vSAN includes around 50+ automated health checks (as of now) which monitors and tells you how your HCI infrastructure is doing. You also have the option to perform an online health test which downloads the new health…… Continue reading vSAN Health Checks Explained – Part 1