Summary: vCenter has alarm "Physical disk health retrieval issue" on vCenter

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Issue


VxRail: Physical disk health retrieval issue alarm on vCenter

vCenter may show the alarm "Physical disk health retrieval issue"
Cause
Nodes on the cluster have the vSAN health service hanging
Resolution
To resolve this issue, SSH to each of the nodes in the cluster and check the status of the vSAN health and then restart it.

Use following commands on the node:

For ESXi 6.0 Update 2 or later
/etc/init.d/vsanmgmtd status
/etc/init.d/vsanmgmtd restart

For ESXi version 6.0.0 or 6.0 Update 1, vSAN health service is integrated into the host daemon. Check the host daemon status with the following command:
/etc/init.d/hostd status



 
Notes

VMware KB: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2149291