Chapter 7. Troubleshooting VSAN

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

  • Investigating network partitions (with vSphere Web Client)
  • Investigating network partitions (without vSphere Web Client)
  • Investigating Storage Provider registration problems
  • Investigating other SPBM problems
  • Investigating VM provisioning or power-on failures
  • Investigating disk failures
  • Investigating VSAN performance with VSAN Observer

Introduction

As with any IT infrastructure, you will occasionally encounter problems in your VSAN implementation. VSAN is designed to always enforce and maintain the integrity and consistency of production data, but this does not mean that outages or even data loss are impossible. In combination with the alarms discussed ...

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