Failed to remove a Permanent failure disk with error "A general system error occurred. Disk is not healthy. Can not evacuate data in EvacuateAllData mode"

Products

• VMware vSAN

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

While removing a  Permanent failure disk with full data migration, get the following error message:

"A general system error occurred. Disk is not healthy. Can not evacuate data in EvacuateAllData mode"

Environment

VMware vSAN 7.x

Resolution

 Place the host into maintenance mode with appropriate mode then refer How to remove a disk from a vSAN disk group/host to remove the disk.