VSAN-Troubleshooting-Reference-Manual

Diagnostics and Troubleshooting Reference Manual – Virtual SAN
1. Introduction
VMware’s Virtual SAN is designed to be simple: simple to configure, and simple to
operate. This simplicity masks a sophisticated and powerful storage product.
The purpose of this document is to fully illustrate how Virtual SAN works behind the
scenes: whether this is needed in the context of problem solving, or just to more
fully understand its inner workings.
Health Services
Virtual SAN 6.0 comes with a Health Services plugin. This feature checks a range of
different health aspects of Virtual SAN, and provides insight into the root cause of
many potential Virtual SAN issues. The recommendation when triaging Virtual SAN
is to begin with the Virtual SAN Health Services. Once an issue is detected, the
Health Services highlights the problem and directs administrators to the
appropriate VMware knowledgebase article to begin problem solving.
Please refer to the Virtual SAN Health Services Guide for further details on how to get
the Health Services components, how to install them and how to use the feature for
troubleshooting common Virtual SAN issues.
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