Recommended procedure for replacing a vSAN ESA disk on ESXi host

Products

• VMware vSAN

Issue/Introduction

Steps to remove a disk in vSAN ESA

Environment

VMware vSphere vSAN 8.x

Resolution

Before you Begin

• Verify that the storage controllers on the hosts are configured in passthrough mode and support the hot-plug feature.

  If the storage controllers are configured in RAID 0 mode, see the vendor documentation for information about adding and removing devices.
• If you upgrade the storage pool device, verify that the cluster contains enough space to migrate the data from the storage pool device.
  
  
  

Each host's storage devices claimed by vSAN form a storage pool. All storage devices claimed by vSAN contribute to capacity and performance.

1. Navigate to the vSAN cluster.
2. On the Configure tab, click Disk Management under vSAN.
3. Select the storage pool device, and click Remove Disk.
4. In the Remove Disk dialog box, select Full data migration to transfer all the data available on the host to other hosts in the cluster.
5. Click Go To Pre-Check to find the impact on the cluster if the object is removed or placed in maintenance mode.
6. Click Remove to remove the storage pool device.

Next Steps:

1. Add a new device to the host.
   The host automatically detects the device.
2. If the host is unable to detect the device, perform a device rescan.
3. Claim a disk using the vSAN cluster > Configure > vSAN > Disk Management.
   
   

 

Additional Information

Replace a Storage Pool Device in vSAN ESA Cluster

From ESXi cmd line we can run below cmd to remove the device

# esxcli vsan storagepool remove -d <device_id>