Deleting inaccessible objects from vSAN cluster

Scenario:

Resolution:

• Login to vSAN VCSA as root
• rvc
• Provide a username that has administrator privileges @localhost as shown below
• Change directory to localhost

• Now browse through and set the directory to the respective cluster (in my case cluster name is "Cluster-Rack7")

• vsan.check_state -r <path to your cluster>

• You can purge vswp objects using: vsan.purge_inaccessible_vswp_objects <path to cluster>

• In this case its not a vswp object. So we have to find the owner node of the object and delete it forcefully from there.
• vsan.cmmds_find -u <UUID of object> <path to cluster> to find owner of the object

• SSH into the owner node and delete the inaccessible object file forcefully using /usr/lib/vmware/osfs/bin/objtool delete -u <UUID of inaccessible object> -f -v 10

• Perform vSAN health check to verify status

Hope it was useful. Cheers!

References:

https://www.thinkcharles.net/blog/2018/2/16/removing-inaccessible-objects-in-vsan

https://www.steffr.ch/vmware-vsan-deletepurge-inaccessible-objects/

PowerShell quick start guide

This post is for all those who would like to kickstart and learn PowerShell from the very basic level. When I started learning PowerShell I wrote few articles so that it will be helpful for folks who are looking forward to 'how to start and learn it' and I can also refer to it whenever I need. Here in this post, I am just putting all of them together in proper order so that anyone can easily make use of it.

PowerShell 101 blog series

Part 1: Microsoft PowerShell Help System
Part 2: Objects, properties, and methods in PowerShell

Part 3: PowerShell Pipeline and object filtering
Part 4: Avoid disasters in PowerShell
Part 5: PowerShell Remoting

VMware PowerCLI 101 blog series

VMware PowerCLI 101 - Part1
VMware PowerCLI 101 - Part2
VMware PowerCLI 101 - Part3
VMware PowerCLI 101 - Part4

Pester 101 blog series

Infrastructure testing using Pester - Part 1

Infrastructure testing using Pester - Part 2

Infrastructure testing using Pester - Part 3

Hope this was helpful. Cheers!