Dell VxRack: vsan-healthcheck-disposable VMs are not being deleted after the health check

Summary: vsan-healthcheck-disposable VMs are not being deleted after the health check

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Symptoms

vsan-healthcheck-disposable VMs are not being deleted after the health check.

Searching in vCenter for these can find:

vsan-healthcheck-disposable-02-27-0513-38-r2n8.Name.dell.local     Powered Off    Normal    195.66  MB    1.22  KB    0 MHz    0 MB    Not Required
vsan-healthcheck-disposable-02-27-0513-38-r2n10.Name.dell.local    Powered Off    Normal    195.66  MB    1.23  KB    0 MHz    0 MB    Not Required
vsan-healthcheck-disposable-02-27-0513-38-r1n19.Name.dell.local    Powered Off    Normal    195.66  MB    1.23  KB    0 MHz    0 MB    Not Required
vsan-healthcheck-disposable-02-27-0513-38-r1n17.Name.dell.local    Powered Off    Normal    195.66  MB    1.23  KB    0 MHz    0 MB    Not Required

 

Cause

This is a bug in VCF version 2.3.2.X which has monitoring enabled by default.
VCF Monitoring internally calls SOS Storage and Network health check periodically.
SDDC Manager this health-check script triggers this in vCenter every 30 minutes.

You can confirm this by running the following on SDDC Manager and triggers the health check VM creation and deletion.

/home/scripts/sos_health_check.sh --storage-health /home/vrack/tmp/host-disk-health-check/

 

Resolution

A solution exists for this issue, but intervention from Dell Technologies technical support personnel is required. A hotfix has been supplied by VMware engineering to resolve this issue on VCF 2.3.2.X. Contact the Dell Technologies Customer Support Center or your service representative for technical assistance and quote this solution ID.

 

Affected Products

VxRack SDDC 14G-1

Products

VMware vCenter Operations, VxRack SDDC 14G-1
Article Properties
Article Number: 000056262
Article Type: Solution
Last Modified: 20 May 2026
Version:  6
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