VxRail: How to Use Esxcli Commands with vSAN to Check Objects and Cluster Health Summary

How to use esxcli commands with vSAN to check objects and cluster health summary to obtain information about vSAN and to troubleshoot the vSAN environment.

The following commands are available:

esxcli vsan network list      

esxcli vsan storage list

esxcli vsan cluster get

esxcli vsan health

esxcli vsan debug

esxcli vsan debug disk

esxcli vsan debug object

esxcli vsan debug resync

esxcli vsan debug controller 

esxcli vsan debug limit

esxcli vsan debug vmdk

Example esxcli vsan debug commands:

# esxcli vsan debug disk summary get
  
 Overall Health: green
   Component Metadata Health: green
   Memory Pools (heaps): green
   Memory Pools (slabs): green

# esxcli vsan debug disk list

UUID: 52e1d1fa-af0e-0c6c-f219-e5e1d224b469
   Name: mpx.vmhba1:C0:T1:L0
   SSD: False
   Overall Health: green
   Congestion Health:
         State: green
         Congestion Value: 0
         Congestion Area: none
   In Cmmds: true
   In Vsi: true
   Metadata Health: green
   Operational Health: green
   Space Health:
         State: green
         Capacity: 107365793792 bytes
         Used: 1434451968 bytes
         Reserved: 150994944 bytes

# esxcli vsan debug object health summary get

    Health Status                                     Number Of Objects
    ------------------------------------------------  -----------------
    reduced-availability-with-no-rebuild-delay-timer                  0
    reduced-availability-with-active-rebuild                          0
    inaccessible                                                      0
    data-move                                                         0
    healthy                                                           1
    nonavailability-related-incompliance                              0
    nonavailability-related-reconfig                                  0
    reduced-availability-with-no-rebuild                              0
 

# esxcli vsan debug object list
   
 Object UUID: 47cbdc58-e01c-9e33-dada-020010d5dfa3
       Version: 5
       Health: healthy
       Owner:
       Policy:
          stripeWidth: 1
          CSN: 1
          spbmProfileName: vSAN Default Storage Policy
          spbmProfileId: aa6d5a82-1c88-45da-85d3-3d74b91a5bad
          forceProvisioning: 0
          cacheReservation: 0
          proportionalCapacity: [0, 100]
          spbmProfileGenerationNumber: 0
          hostFailuresToTolerate: 1

       Configuration:
          RAID_1
             Component: 47cbdc58-6928-333f-0c51-020010d5dfa3
               Component State: ACTIVE,  Address Space(B): 273804165120 (255.00GB),  
               Disk UUID: 52e95956-42cf-4d30-9cbe-763c616614d5, Disk Name: mpx.vmhba1..
               Votes: 1,  Capacity Used(B): 373293056 (0.35GB), 
               Physical Capacity Used(B): 369098752 (0.34GB),  Host Name: sc-rdops...
             Component: 47cbdc58-eebf-363f-cf2b-020010d5dfa3
               Component State: ACTIVE,  Address Space(B): 273804165120 (255.00GB),  
               Disk UUID: 52d11301-1720-9901-eb0a-157d68b3e4fc,  Disk Name: mpx.vmh...
               Votes: 1,  Capacity Used(B): 373293056 (0.35GB),  
               Physical Capacity Used(B): 369098752 (0.34GB),  Host Name: sc-rdops-vm..
          Witness: 47cbdc58-21d2-383f-e45a-020010d5dfa3
            Component State: ACTIVE,  Address Space(B): 0 (0.00GB),  
            Disk UUID: 52bfd405-160b-96ba-cf42-09da8c2d7023,  Disk Name: mpx.vmh...
            Votes: 1,  Capacity Used(B): 12582912 (0.01GB),  
            Physical Capacity Used(B): 4194304 (0.00GB),  Host Name: sc-rdops-vm...
    
       Type: vmnamespace
       Path: /vmfs/volumes/vsan:52134fafd48ad6d6-bf03cb6af0f21b8d/New Virtual Machine
       Group UUID: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
       Directory Name: New Virtual Machine
 

# esxcli vsan debug controller list

    Device Name: vmhba1
       Device Display Name: LSI Logic/Symbios Logic 53c1030 PCI-X Fusion-MPT Dual Ult..
       Used By VSAN: true
       PCI ID: 1000/0030/15ad/1976
       Driver Name: mptspi
       Driver Version: 4.23.01.00-10vmw
       Max Supported Queue Depth: 127

# esxcli vsan debug limit get
   
    Component Limit Health: green
       Max Components: 750
       Free Components: 748
       Disk Free Space Health: green
       Lowest Free Disk Space: 99 %
       Used Disk Space: 1807745024 bytes
       Used Disk Space (GB): 1.68 GB
       Total Disk Space: 107365793792 bytes
       Total Disk Space (GB): 99.99 GB
       Read Cache Free Reservation Health: green
       Reserved Read Cache Size: 0 bytes
       Reserved Read Cache Size (GB): 0.00 GB
       Total Read Cache Size: 0 bytes
       Total Read Cache Size (GB): 0.00 GB

# esxcli vsan debug vmdk list
   
 Object: 50cbdc58-506f-c4c2-0bde-020010d5dfa3
       Health: healthy
       Type: vdisk
       Path: /vmfs/volumes/vsan:52134fafd48ad6d6-bf03cb6af0f21b8d/47cbdc58-e01c-9e33-
             dada-020010d5dfa3/New Virtual Machine.vmdk
       Directory Name: N/A
 

# esxcli vsan debug resync list
   
        Object            Component              Bytes Left To Resync  GB Left To Resync
   ----------------  ---------------------  --------------------  -----------------
   31cfdc58-e68d...  Component:23d1dc58...             536870912  0.50
   31cfdc58-e68d...  Component:23d1dc58...            1073741824  1.00
   31cfdc58-e68d...  Component:23d1dc58...            1073741824  1.00