While performing some firmware updates on my vSAN enabled hosts, we noticed some vSAN related alarms firing off. The one in particular that was bothering me was the Network Health – vSAN Cluster Partition. Why? Well, let’s take a look at what that means. All vSAN hosts should be able to communicate metadata updates over…
We embarked on patching all of our hosts to 6.7 Update 3, which included our vSAN clusters. The first vSAN cluster to get the update is our four-node management cluster. After patching two hosts to 6.7 Update 3 (build 14320388), we noticed several vSAN alarms. At first I thought this was something similar to my…
No, it’s not Sho Nuff. After configuring a new four-node vSAN cluster, we noticed some partition errors after a day or so of uptime. The strange thing was the cluster was divided into four partitions. Four masters, four partitions – that’s not good. Let’s see what the hosts have to say via the command line….
While building out a new vSAN Cluster, I received an error for the vSAN object health. I clicked the “Repair Objects Immediately” button, and it thought about it for a minute – but ultimately it was a wasted effort. The “Purge Inaccessible VM Swap Objects” button was up next. But unfortunately, like its partner, it…