The VMware Virtual SAN team is proud to announce the general availability of the new VMware Virtual SAN Health Check Plug-in.
The Health Check Plug-in was created to address one of the pain points many storage solution suffer from – hardware health and configuration – and VSAN is no different in that respect. The Health Check Plug-in will address this issue and in the same time maintain one of Virtual SAN’s core benefits – keeping things simple. The simplicity aspect comes into effect in two ways:
- It’s a simple vCenter plug-in seamlessly integrating with the rest of the vCenter UI – maintaining the single pane of glass benefit
- It provides clear and detailed warnings and alerts including suggested ways to solve issues when they appear
Virtual SAN Health Check Plug-in implements several checks including:
- Hardware Compatibility – scans your VSAN cluster and detects components not on HCL. Also will make sure you have the right drivers and firmware
- Networking Configuration – checks for potential hosts getting disconnected, cluster partitioning and other network related issues
- Limits Health – makes sure the cluster stays operational in cases like a host failure
- Storage Device Health – checks for disk capacity issues, congestion, metadata health and other potential device problems
- Virtual Machines Objects health – checks for objects metadata health, and other potential object complications
Overview screen of Virtual SAN Health Check Plug-in:
In addition to the ongoing monitoring of the Virtual SAN 6 cluster health, the Health Check Plug-in enables a set of proactive tests like:
- VM creation
- Storage Performance
- Multicast Performance
Check out this short demo video to see how the Health Check Plug-in helps overcome a networking problem:
The Health Check Plug-in is a free vCenter Plug-in that is downloadable under the drivers & tools tabs in the Virtual SAN download page. If you are not a Virtual SAN 6 customer, you can still try out the plug-in by downloading your free 60 days evaluation copy – www.vmware.com/go/try-vsan-dl-en
You can also try our hosted evaluation by going to the Virtual SAN 6 hands on lab – www.vmware.com/go/try-vsan-hol