Unable to Disable Performance Service in vSAN 8

Products

• VMware vSAN

Issue/Introduction

This article described steps for how to disable vSAN Performance Service in vSAN 8.

Symptoms:

After installed or upgraded to vSAN 8, vSAN Performance Service can be enabled but unable to be disabled.

 

Environment

VMware vSAN 7.0.x
VMware vSAN 8.0.x

Cause

There is no Disable option in vSAN 8 vSAN Performance Service Setting.

Resolution

Follow below steps to disable Performance Service:

1 Log in vCSA from ssh client or vCSA VM Console.

2 Enable vCSA shell access and log in rvc with sso administrator user.

3 From rvc, run "vsan.perf.stats_object_info" under /localhost/Datacenter/computers> to query vSAN Performance Service related Object information for specific vSAN Cluster:
 
/localhost/Datacenter/computers> vsan.perf.stats_object_info 0
Directory Name: .vsan.stats
vSAN Object UUID: 01e0f764-####-####-####-#########7d
SPBM Profile: vSAN Default Storage Policy
vSAN Policy: hostFailuresToTolerate: 1, cacheReservation: 0, stripeWidth: 1, proportionalCapacity: 0, forceProvisioning: 0, iopsLimit: 0, checksumDisabled: 0, subFailuresToTolerate: 0, spbmProfileGenerationNumber: 0, spbmProfileId: aa6d5a82-####-####-####-#########ad, compressionDisabled: 0
vSAN Object Health: healthy
 
DOM Object: 01e0f764-####-####-####-#########7d (v17, owner: esxi1.example.com, proxy owner: None, policy: stripeWidth = 1, cacheReservation = 0, proportionalCapacity = [0, 100], hostFailuresToTolerate = 1, forceProvisioning = 0, spbmProfileId = aa6d5a82-####-####-####-#########ad, spbmProfileGenerationNumber = 0, CSN = 2, spbmProfileName = vSAN Default Storage Policy)
 RAID_1
   Component: 01e0f764-####-####-####-#########7d (state: ACTIVE (5), host: esxi1.example.com, capacity: mpx.vmhba3:C0:T0:L0, cache: mpx.vmhba2:C0:T0:L0,
                                                    votes: 1, usage: 0.2 GB, proxy component: false)
   Component: 01e0f764-####-####-####-#########7d (state: ACTIVE (5), host: esxi2.example.com, capacity: mpx.vmhba1:C0:T0:L0, cache: mpx.vmhba2:C0:T0:L0,
                                                    votes: 1, usage: 0.2 GB, proxy component: false)
 Witness: 01e0f764-####-####-####-#########7d (state: ACTIVE (5), host: esxi3.example.com, capacity: mpx.vmhba1:C0:T0:L0, cache: mpx.vmhba2:C0:T0:L0,
                                                votes: 1, usage: 0.0 GB, proxy component: false)
 Extended attributes:
   Address space: 273804165120B (255.00 GB)
   Object class: vmnamespace
   Object path: /vmfs/volumes/vsan:52a9537793######-c08e3f91e6######/.vsan.stats
   Object capabilities: NONE
 
4 Use "vsan.perf.stats_object_delete" to delete vSAN Performance Service object:
 
/localhost/Datacenter/computers> vsan.perf.stats_object_delete 0
Deleting vSAN Stats DB object, which will stop vSAN Performance Service ...
Task: Disable vSAN performance service
New progress: 1%
New progress: 50%
Task result: success
 
5 Monitor Recent Task from vSphere Client， there will be a task name “Disable vSAN Performance Service”：
 

6 After the “Disable vSAN Performance Service” task completed, check Performance Service status again, it will show "Disabled" status:
 

Note: If you are unfamiliar with using the rvc (Ruby vSphere Console), please refer to the vSAN rvc documentation for guidance：Ruby vSphere Console (RVC)