Chapter 4. Monitoring VSAN

In this chapter, we will discuss the following topics, with a recipe for each:

  • Examining VSAN datastore health
  • Examining VSAN disk health
  • Examining VM object health
  • Creating VSAN-specific alarms
  • Examining VSAN resync activity (vSphere 6.0

Introduction

Once VSAN is deployed and in production, you will want to be able to monitor the health and capacity of the cluster, disks, and VMs and their various components.

This chapter will describe the GUI-based monitoring elements of Virtual SAN, and will show you how to monitor the high-level health of the cluster and create useful alarms to notify you of issues within your VSAN deployment.

Note

In VSAN, many of the cluster monitoring features are available via the special command-line ...

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