vSAN Disk Management showing Disk Group unhealthy on host and displays an alarm "Disk is no longer participating in the VSAN disk group"

Products

• VMware vSAN

Issue/Introduction

• The vSAN Disk Management screen at the cluster level in vCenter shows one disk group on host 4 as unhealthy.
  
• The Unclaimed and ineligible disks section shows only a single ineligible disk.
  
• The vSAN Skyline Health check shows Disk operational health check with with one disk "Unknown disk health state”.
  
• The command line on host shows the disk as only a UUID
  
  
• Below alarm is reflected for the host
  

Environment

vSAN - All versions

Cause

One disk on the host is physically failed or missing from the host and not seen by ESXi.

This can be verified by checking the host out of band management (iDRAC, iLO, etc) and seeing a failed disk, disk showing incorrect size (example: 700 MB vs 800 GB), or a disk is missing from inventory,

Resolution

Remove the disk from the disk group.

From vCenter Web Client:
1. Confirm if Deduplication and Compression is in use or not
2. Place the host into maintenance mode with Ensure Accessibility
3. a) If dedup is not in use then go to vSAN Cluster > Configure > Disk Management > Select the disk to be removed > Confirm no data impact with the Pre-Check Data Migration > If no data impact then select Remove Disk(s)
    b) If dedup is in use then the entire disk group needs to be removed and recreated. vSAN Cluster > Configure > Disk Management > Select the disk group to be removed > Confirm no data impact with the Pre-Check Data Migration > If no data impact then select Remove Disk Group

If unable to remove the disk from the group in the UI, remove from the command line.

From ssh client connected to the host with problem disk:
1. Find the disk reporting as only UUID:
     vdq -i

2. Remove the disk entry from the disk group:
     esxcli vsan storage remove -u <UUID>

Add Devices to the Disk Group in vSAN Cluster

The devices must be the same type as the existing devices in the disk groups, such as SSD or magnetic disks.

• In the vSphere Client, navigate to the cluster.
• Click the Configure tab.
• Under vSAN, click Disk Management.
• Select the disk group, and click the Add Disks.
• Select the device that you want to add and click Add.
  If you add a used device that contains residual data or partition information, you must first clean the device. For information about removing partition information from devices, see Remove Partition From Devices.

After Completing the Task:
Verify that the vSAN Disk Balance health check is green. If the Disk Balance health check issues a warning, perform automatic rebalance operation during off-peak hours. For more information, see Configure Automatic Rebalance in vSAN Cluster.

Additional Information

If alerts for data availability exist, contact support before removing the disk.