VxRail: Component Metadata Health Check Fails with Invalid State Error

Summary: The component metadata health check fails with an invalid state error.

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Instructions

Screenshot showing failed:

Component metadata health check fails with an invalid state error message in UI

Steps:

  1. Next to the item, click the down drop arrow and select Copy all to clipboard.
  2. Paste output to Notepad++.
Output should be similar to: 
Host,Component,Health,Notes
host01.vsphere.local
2d0ec858-0c84-0260-8650-54ab3a774210
,Failed,Invalid state

Component with the invalid state: 2d0ec858-0c84-0260-8650-54ab3a774210

  1. Open an SSH to the node in question; 01 as per the screenshot above
  2. Run the following command on the host:
for i in $(vsish -e ls /vmkModules/lsom/disks/ | sed 's/.$//'); do echo "Disk:" $i; localcli vsan storage list | grep $i -B 2 | grep Disp; echo "Recovered components:";vsish -e ls /vmkModules/lsom/disks/"$i"/recoveredComponents/ 2>/dev/null; echo; done

This command identifies the specific capacity drive.

[root@01:~] for i in $(vsish -e ls /vmkModules/lsom/disks/ | sed 's/.$//'); do echo "Disk:" $i; localcli vsan storage list | grep $i -B 2 | grep Disp; echo "Re
covered components:";vsish -e ls /vmkModules/lsom/disks/"$i"/recoveredComponents/ 2>/dev/null; echo; done
Disk: 52660cec-64c0-b7f7-7739-a751ee424bcf
   Display Name: naa.5000cca04fb4f314
Recovered components:
 
Disk: 526ce45e-d77b-002f-0019-cdee90596958
   Display Name: naa.5000cca080185320
Recovered components:
626c6b41-7474-7243-6f6d-706f6e656e74/
 
Disk: 52ebf009-45e6-7136-e824-64e2af3a1fdb
   Display Name: naa.5000cca080183890
Recovered components:
626c6b41-7474-7243-6f6d-706f6e656e74/
 
Disk: 52366305-0005-ae1f-a9b8-40cb0710f392
   Display Name: naa.5000cca080178edc    <---- Device with the invalid component state
Recovered components:
2d0ec858-0c84-0260-8650-54ab3a774210/ <----Component with the invalid state
626c6b41-7474-7243-6f6d-706f6e656e74/
 
Disk: 52426e85-d20a-2751-c60b-923cd1e1adac
   Display Name: naa.5000cca080184808
Recovered components:
626c6b41-7474-7243-6f6d-706f6e656e74/
 
Disk: 52814bd3-b594-4e90-dfa4-6760ea242261
   Display Name: naa.5000cca080173530
Recovered components:
626c6b41-7474-7243-6f6d-706f6e656e74/
  1. Go to Virtual SAN > General tab, Set disk claim to manual.
  2. ​​​​​​​Go to Disk management as per the screenshot below.

Browsing to Disk management                                           

  1. Select the disk group for the node and the disk in question.
  2. Remove the disk from the disk group (full data migration) option.
  3. Readd the disk to the disk group.
  4. Go to Virtual SAN > General tab.
  5. Set the disk claim to automatic again.

Affected Products

VxRail Appliance Series

Products

VxRail Appliance Series
Article Properties
Article Number: 000020484
Article Type: How To
Last Modified: 03 Oct 2025
Version:  5
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