This KB is written to inform of this issue, and to provide workaround steps and resolution.
Symptoms:
Hosts are running on any version of ESXi/vSAN 6.7
After a host is rebooted or vSAN disk group mounted the vSAN health check/Skyline Health reports Invalid Metadata Components
For all UI and log messages your host name, UUIDs, times, and exact details will vary.In vCenter logs you may see similar messages in the vSAN health summary logs:
2021-11-13T00:48:19.992Z INFO vsan-mgmt[healthThread-29842] [VsanHealthSummaryLogUtil::PrintHealthResult opID=06aaed9c] Cluster vSAN Cluster Overall Health : red
Group physicaldisks health : red
Test physdiskoverall health : red
DisksWithIssues: Host Disk OverallHealth MetadataHealth OperationalHealth InCmmds/Vsi OperationalStateDescription Recommendation Uuid
(Host-45891, AbsentVsanDisk(VsanUuid:52C8Dfd6-####-####-####-##########86), Red, Green, Red, No/No, PermanentDiskLoss, PleaseRemoveTheDisk, 52C8Dfd6-####-####-####-##########86),
(Host-45891, LocalAtaDisk(Naa.55Cd2E414Deecc00), Red, Red, Red, No/No, PermanentDiskLossInDiskGroup, PleaseUnmountTheDiskGroup, 52E14C4F-####-####-####-##########F4),
(Host-45891, LocalAtaDisk(Naa.55Cd2E414Deeecfe), Red, Red, Red, No/No, PermanentDiskLossInDiskGroup, PleaseUnmountTheDiskGroup, 52C2F341-####-####-####-##########8D),
(Host-45891, LocalAtaDisk(Naa.55Cd2E414Deec136), Red, Red, Red, No/No, PermanentDiskLossInDiskGroup, PleaseUnmountTheDiskGroup, 523Bb81D-####-####-####-##########5E),
(Host-45891, LocalAtaDisk(Naa.55Cd2E414Deed39A), Red, Red, Red, No/No, PermanentDiskLossInDiskGroup, PleaseUnmountTheDiskGroup, 52364A19-####-####-####-##########23),
Test physdiskcapacity health : yellow
DisksWithIssues: Host Disk Capacity FreeSpace RebalanceState Uuid
(Host-45891, LocalAtaDisk(Naa.55Cd2E414Deed5B8), Yellow, 43.99Gb(5%), ReactiveRebalanceTaskIsInProgress, 52Cba6F1-####-####-####-###########0A), (Host-45891, localAtaDisk(Naa.55Cd2E414Deeede4), Yellow, 59.77Gb(8%
), ReactiveRebalanceTaskIsInProgress, 5256761D-7362-630A-8458-B9E107Ee0Be6),
(Host-45891, LocalAtaDisk(Naa.55Cd2E414Deec9C3), Yellow, 59.08Gb(7%), ReactiveRebalanceTaskIsInProgress, 5210A8Ad-####-####-####-###########47), (Host-45891, LocalAtaDisk(Naa.55Cd2E414Deec656), Yellow, 55.50Gb(7%
), ReactiveRebalanceTaskIsInProgress, 527Afb6D-78B8-Ed7E-Fa1C-B8Bcd8B8F665),