Remediation of vSAN Cluster Failed due to vSAN health Test in warning/error state

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi
• VMware vSAN 7.x
• VMware vSAN 8.x
• VMware vSAN

Issue/Introduction

While using lifecycle manager to remediate a vSAN cluster it Fails due to vsan health check. 

 

Environment

VCenter 7.x
VCenter 8.x

vSAN 7.x 
vSAN 8.x

 

Cause

Lifecycle Manager will run a precheck for vSAN health prior remediation. If there are any warnings/errors the lifecycle manager will fail the remediation. 

Resolution

You have two ways of correcting this issue. 

1. Remediate the error or warning in vSAN health.

2. If it is just a warning, Silence the warring to allow for the cluster remediation to complete. 

Note: It is not advisable to silence an error, this could cause or exasperate an existing issue and lead potential Data loss or cause data to go unavailable