NSX Routing: NSX Host Health Check

Summary: This article describes how to check the health status of each ESXi host from the NSX Manager.

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The health status is reported as critical, unhealthy, or healthy using the commands below:

For example:

nsxmgr> show host host-30 health-status
status: HEALTHY

nsxmgr> show host host-29 health-status
UNHEALTHY, Standard Switch vSwitch1 has no uplinks.
UNHEALTHY, Storage volume datastore1 has no enough free spaces: 19.% free.
status: UNHEALTHY

nsxmgr> show host host-28 health-status
CRITICAL, VXLAN VDS vds-site-a VNI 200000 multicast addr is not synchronized with VSM: 0.0.0.0.
CRITICAL, VXLAN VDS vds-site-a VNI 200003 multicast addr is not synchronized with VSM: 0.0.0.0.
CRITICAL, VXLAN VDS vds-site-a VNI 5000 multicast addr is not synchronized with VSM: 0.0.0.0.
Status: CRITICAL

Affected Products

VxBlock and Vblock Systems

Products

ScaleIO
Article Properties
Article Number: 000206958
Article Type: How To
Last Modified: 16 Jun 2025
Version:  2
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