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VMware Virtual SAN Cookbook

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VMware Virtual SAN Cookbook

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
VMware Virtual SAN Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

The vsan.resync_dashboard command


One of the most important things you will need to keep track of as an administrator is the movement of objects throughout the cluster and keeping an eye on recovery/resync activity following failures or maintenance-related outages. This command will show you sync activity due to rebalance tasks, new policy application, and recovery operations.

This information is plumbed into the vSphere Web Client in vSphere 6.0, but it is only available through RVC in vSphere 5.5. This command still works in vSphere 6.0 and can provide additional information about non-VM related objects, which are still not revealed in the vSphere Web Client.

Getting ready

You should be logged in to RVC as a vCenter Administrator.

How to do it…

  1. As we are asking for information about the VSAN cluster, the command will be executed against the cluster level in RVC.

  2. Type vsan.resync_dashboard /<vCenter>/<Datacenter>/computers/<Cluster> and strike the Enter key:

  3. Here, we can see...