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vSAN health alarms are suppressed

I have this warning for several of my vSAN clusters, but can't figure out what have been suppressed.

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I've tried to use RVC to check why we have this alarm. No matter which of the 5 vSAN clusters I check RVC reports no alarms with Silent status other than Normal.

> vsan.health.silent_health_check_status 1/DC/computers/clusterXXX/

Silent Status of Cluster clusterXXX:

+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+---------------+

| Health Check                                                                                | Health Check Id                     | Silent Status |

+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+---------------+

| Cloud Health                                                                                |                                     |               |

|   Advanced vSAN configuration supported                                                     | unsupportedadvparameters            | Normal        |

|   Controller utility is installed on host                                                   | vendortoolpresence                  | Normal        |

|   Controller with pass-through and RAID disks                                               | mixedmode                           | Normal        |

|   Coredump partition size check                                                             | coredumpartitionsize                | Normal        |

|   Customer experience improvement program (CEIP)                                            | vsancloudhealthceipexception        | Normal        |

|   Disks usage on storage controller                                                         | diskusage                           | Normal        |

|   Dual encryption applied to VMs on vSAN                                                    | dualencryption                      | Normal        |

|   Network adapter is VMware certified                                                       | pnichcl                             | Normal        |

|   Online health connectivity                                                                | vsancloudhealthconnectionexception  | Normal        |

|   Patch available for critical vSAN issue for All-Flash clusters with deduplication enabled | patchalert                          | Normal        |

|   Physical network adapter link speed consistency                                           | pnicconsistent                      | Normal        |

|   RAID controller configuration                                                             | controllercacheconfig               | Normal        |

|   Thick-provisioned VMs on vSAN                                                             | thickprovision                      | Normal        |

|   vCenter Server up to date                                                                 | vcuptodate                          | Normal        |

|   vSAN Critical Alert - Patch available for critical vSAN issue                             | lilypatchalert                      | Normal        |

|   vSAN Critical Alert - vSAN Advanced Configuration Check                                   | lilyadvparametercheck               | Normal        |

|   vSAN and VMFS datastores on a Dell H730 controller with the lsi_mr3 driver                | mixedmodeh730                       | Normal        |

|   vSAN configuration for LSI-3108 based controller                                          | h730                                | Normal        |

|   vSAN max component size                                                                   | smalldiskstest                      | Normal        |

+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+---------------+

| Cluster                                                                                     |                                     |               |

|   Advanced vSAN configuration in sync                                                       | advcfgsync                          | Normal        |

|   Advanced vSAN configuration supported                                                     | unsupportedadvparameters            | Normal        |

|   Coredump partition size check                                                             | coredumpartitionsize                | Normal        |

|   Deduplication and compression configuration consistency                                   | physdiskdedupconfig                 | Normal        |

|   Deduplication and compression usage health                                                | physdiskdedupusage                  | Normal        |

|   Disk format version                                                                       | upgradelowerhosts                   | Normal        |

|   ESXi vSAN Health service installation                                                     | healtheaminstall                    | Normal        |

|   Host Maintenance Mode                                                                     | mmdecominsync                       | Normal        |

|   Resync operations throttling                                                              | resynclimit                         | Normal        |

|   Software version compatibility                                                            | upgradesoftware                     | Normal        |

|   Time is synchronized across hosts and VC                                                  | timedrift                           | Normal        |

|   vCenter state is authoritative                                                            | vcauthoritative                     | Normal        |

|   vSAN CLOMD liveness                                                                       | clomdliveness                       | Normal        |

|   vSAN Disk Balance                                                                         | diskbalance                         | Normal        |

|   vSAN Health Service up-to-date                                                            | healthversion                       | Normal        |

|   vSAN cluster configuration consistency                                                    | consistentconfig                    | Normal        |

|   vSAN extended configuration in sync                                                       | extendedconfig                      | Normal        |

|   vSphere cluster members match vSAN cluster members                                        | clustermembership                   | Normal        |

+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+---------------+

| Data                                                                                        |                                     |               |

|   vSAN VM health                                                                            | vmhealth                            | Normal        |

|   vSAN object health                                                                        | objecthealth                        | Normal        |

+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+---------------+

| Data protection                                                                             |                                     |               |

|   Data protection service version check                                                     | dataprotectionversion               | Normal        |

|   vSAN DPD liveness                                                                         | dpdliveness                         | Normal        |

|   vSAN data protection archival target accessibility                                        | archivalaccessibility               | Normal        |

|   vSAN data protection service configuration in sync                                        | dpcfgsync                           | Normal        |

|   vSAN datastore usage threshold check                                                      | datastoreusage                      | Normal        |

|   vSAN object data protection health                                                        | objectdphealth                      | Normal        |

+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+---------------+

| Encryption                                                                                  |                                     |               |

|   CPU AES-NI is enabled on hosts                                                            | hostcpuaesni                        | Normal        |

|   vCenter and all hosts are connected to Key Management Servers                             | kmsconnection                       | Normal        |

+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+---------------+

| Hardware compatibility                                                                      |                                     |               |

|   Controller disk group mode is VMware certified                                            | controllerdiskmode                  | Normal        |

|   Controller driver is VMware certified                                                     | controllerdriver                    | Normal        |

|   Controller firmware is VMware certified                                                   | controllerfirmware                  | Normal        |

|   Controller is VMware certified for ESXi release                                           | controllerreleasesupport            | Normal        |

|   Controller utility is installed on host                                                   | vendortoolpresence                  | Normal        |

|   Controller with pass-through and RAID disks                                               | mixedmode                           | Normal        |

|   Host issues retrieving hardware info                                                      | hclhostbadstate                     | Normal        |

|   Network adapter driver is VMware certified                                                | pnicdriver                          | Normal        |

|   Network adapter firmware is VMware certified                                              | pnicfirmware                        | Normal        |

|   Network adapter is VMware certified                                                       | pniconhcl                           | Normal        |

|   Network adapter is VMware certified                                                       | pnichcl                             | Normal        |

|   Network adapter is VMware certified for ESXi release                                      | pnicreleasesupport                  | Normal        |

|   RAID controller configuration                                                             | controllercacheconfig               | Normal        |

|   SCSI controller is VMware certified                                                       | controlleronhcl                     | Normal        |

|   vSAN HCL DB Auto Update                                                                   | autohclupdate                       | Normal        |

|   vSAN HCL DB up-to-date                                                                    | hcldbuptodate                       | Normal        |

|   vSAN and VMFS datastores on a Dell H730 controller with the lsi_mr3 driver                | mixedmodeh730                       | Normal        |

|   vSAN configuration for LSI-3108 based controller                                          | h730                                | Normal        |

|   vSAN firmware provider health                                                             | firmwareproviderhealth              | Normal        |

|   vSAN firmware version recommendation                                                      | fwrecommendation                    | Normal        |

+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+---------------+

| Hyperconverged cluster configuration compliance                                             |                                     |               |

|   Host compliance check for hyperconverged cluster configuration                            | hosthciconfig                       | Normal        |

|   VDS compliance check for hyperconverged cluster configuration                             | dvshciconfig                        | Normal        |

+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+---------------+

| Limits                                                                                      |                                     |               |

|   After 1 additional host failure                                                           | limit1hf                            | Normal        |

|   Current cluster situation                                                                 | limit0hf                            | Normal        |

|   Host component limit                                                                      | nodecomponentlimit                  | Normal        |

+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+---------------+

| Network                                                                                     |                                     |               |

|   Active multicast connectivity check                                                       | multicastdeepdive                   | Normal        |

|   All hosts have a vSAN vmknic configured                                                   | vsanvmknic                          | Normal        |

|   All hosts have matching multicast settings                                                | multicastsettings                   | Normal        |

|   Hosts disconnected from VC                                                                | hostdisconnected                    | Normal        |

|   Hosts with connectivity issues                                                            | hostconnectivity                    | Normal        |

|   Multicast assessment based on other checks                                                | multicastsuspected                  | Normal        |

|   Network latency check                                                                     | hostlatencycheck                    | Normal        |

|   Physical network adapter link speed consistency                                           | pnicconsistent                      | Normal        |

|   vMotion: Basic (unicast) connectivity check                                               | vmotionpingsmall                    | Normal        |

|   vMotion: MTU check (ping with large packet size)                                          | vmotionpinglarge                    | Normal        |

|   vSAN cluster partition                                                                    | clusterpartition                    | Normal        |

|   vSAN: Basic (unicast) connectivity check                                                  | smallping                           | Normal        |

|   vSAN: MTU check (ping with large packet size)                                             | largeping                           | Normal        |

+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+---------------+

| Performance service                                                                         |                                     |               |

|   All hosts contributing stats                                                              | hostsmissing                        | Normal        |

|   Performance data collection                                                               | collection                          | Normal        |

|   Performance service status                                                                | perfsvcstatus                       | Normal        |

|   Stats DB object                                                                           | statsdb                             | Normal        |

|   Stats DB object conflicts                                                                 | renameddirs                         | Normal        |

|   Stats master election                                                                     | masterexist                         | Normal        |

|   Verbose mode                                                                              | verbosemode                         | Normal        |

+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+---------------+

| Physical disk                                                                               |                                     |               |

|   Component limit health                                                                    | physdiskcomplimithealth             | Normal        |

|   Component metadata health                                                                 | componentmetadata                   | Normal        |

|   Congestion                                                                                | physdiskcongestion                  | Normal        |

|   Disk capacity                                                                             | physdiskcapacity                    | Normal        |

|   Disks usage on storage controller                                                         | diskusage                           | Normal        |

|   Memory pools (heaps)                                                                      | lsomheap                            | Normal        |

|   Memory pools (slabs)                                                                      | lsomslab                            | Normal        |

|   Operation health                                                                          | physdiskoverall                     | Normal        |

|   Physical disk health retrieval issues                                                     | physdiskhostissues                  | Normal        |

|   vSAN max component size                                                                   | smalldiskstest                      | Normal        |

+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+---------------+

| Stretched cluster                                                                           |                                     |               |

|   Invalid preferred fault domain on witness host                                            | witnesspreferredfaultdomaininvalid  | Normal        |

|   Invalid unicast agent                                                                     | hostwithinvalidunicastagent         | Normal        |

|   No disk claimed on witness host                                                           | witnesswithnodiskmapping            | Normal        |

|   Preferred fault domain unset                                                              | witnesspreferredfaultdomainnotexist | Normal        |

|   Site latency health                                                                       | siteconnectivity                    | Normal        |

|   Unexpected number of fault domains                                                        | clusterwithouttwodatafaultdomains   | Normal        |

|   Unicast agent configuration inconsistent                                                  | clusterwithmultipleunicastagents    | Normal        |

|   Unicast agent not configured                                                              | hostunicastagentunset               | Normal        |

|   Unsupported host version                                                                  | hostwithnostretchedclustersupport   | Normal        |

|   Witness host fault domain misconfigured                                                   | witnessfaultdomaininvalid           | Normal        |

|   Witness host not found                                                                    | clusterwithoutonewitnesshost        | Normal        |

|   Witness host within vCenter cluster                                                       | witnessinsidevccluster              | Normal        |

+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+---------------+

| vSAN Build Recommendation                                                                   |                                     |               |

|   Patch available for critical vSAN issue for All-Flash clusters with deduplication enabled | patchalert                          | Normal        |

|   vSAN Build Recommendation Engine Health                                                   | vumconfig                           | Normal        |

|   vSAN build recommendation                                                                 | vumrecommendation                   | Normal        |

|   vSAN release catalog up-to-date                                                           | releasecataloguptodate              | Normal        |

+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+---------------+

| vSAN iSCSI target service                                                                   |                                     |               |

|   Home object                                                                               | iscsihomeobjectstatustest           | Normal        |

|   Network configuration                                                                     | iscsiservicenetworktest             | Normal        |

|   Service runtime status                                                                    | iscsiservicerunningtest             | Normal        |

+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+---------------+

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Anyone else seen this issue? Are there other alarms than those in RVC's vsan.health.silent_health_check_status causing this issue?

Lars

vsan.health.silent_health_check_status

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TheBobkin
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Hello Lars,

"Are there other alarms than those in RVC's vsan.health.silent_health_check_status causing this issue?"

No, they should be all there.

"Anyone else seen this issue?"

From reviewing this internally it appears to be a known issue which our engineering teams are aware of and working on resolving in a future release, I unfortunately can not currently provide a date/release in which it will be resolved - I will aim to create/delegate creation of some external documentation regarding this but for now it is safe to acknowledge/silence this alarm.

Bob

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Hello Lars,

"Are there other alarms than those in RVC's vsan.health.silent_health_check_status causing this issue?"

No, they should be all there.

"Anyone else seen this issue?"

From reviewing this internally it appears to be a known issue which our engineering teams are aware of and working on resolving in a future release, I unfortunately can not currently provide a date/release in which it will be resolved - I will aim to create/delegate creation of some external documentation regarding this but for now it is safe to acknowledge/silence this alarm.

Bob

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We also have this same alarm on one of our new vSAN clusters running vCenter 6.7.0 (14070654). I am able to acknowledge the alert but is there a way of restoring/enabling the vSAN related alarms?

At present if an issue such as a disk failure occurs this does not trigger and alarm, the issue is only visible if you access the vSAN Health page.

Edit 01/08/19

I now have a workaround/fix for this one. This alert appears when the quickstart wizard is in progress/not complete. Go to "Cluster > Configure > Configuration > Quickstart > Skip Quickstart". This cleared the alarm for me and enabled the vSAN health alarms.

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Thanks alot, Jason.

Skip Quickstart really did the trick.

Lars