health of vcenter appliance using connect-cisserver

[jvm2016]

Hi Luc,

can you please suggest if i can use rest apis to anayse health of vcenter appliance using connect-cisserver.

i used following  and health of vcenter appliance comes as orange .right now i dont have vcenter root password to check gui.are there further apis to analyse further .

[LucD]

Yes, there are quite a few.

Use the API EXplorer (https://<vcsa-FQDN>/apiexplorer)  to see what is available in your vSphere version.

It depends what you want to see.
There is for example the option to check the status of the services.

Connect-CisServer -Server $vcName | Out-Null

$vmon = Get-CisService -Server $vcName -Name 'com.vmware.appliance.vmon.service'

$services = $vmon.list_details()

$services.GetEnumerator() |

Select @{N='Service';E={$_.Key}},

   @{N='State';E={$_.Value.state}},

   @{N='Health';E={$_.Value.health}},

   @{N='Startup';E={$_.Value.startup_type}}

[jvm2016]

Thanks Luc .since the health of storage comes out orange as mentioned in the screen shot .i am trying to see the partitions space for vcsa.

[LucD]

Afaik, that is not available through the REST API.

Can't you see that with

(Get-VM -Name <vcsa>).Guest.Disks

[jvm2016]

Thanks .i found  /storage/archive is nearly full .there are 12 partitions and 13 hard drives .now we need to find disk corresponding to /storage/archive.

i thought of finding in percentage format as this thing is missing in all powercli commands . can we add some logic in below to find corresponding vmdk to be increased ??

Connect-CisServer -Server "servervc" -Credential $credential

$health_appliancestorage=(Get-CisService -Name 'com.vmware.appliance.health.storage').get()

$health_appliancestorage

if($health_appliancestorage -ne 'green')

{

Disconnect-CisServer -Server "servervc"

Connect-VIServer -Server "servervc" -Credential $credential

$vm=get-vm servervc

$paths=$vm.Guest.Disks

$paths

  foreach($p in $paths)

  {

  $partition_freespace_percent=$p.freespacegb/$p.capacityGB*100

  $partition_freespace_percent_round=[math]::Round($partition_freespace_percent)

  $p|select @{N='vmname';E={$vm.name}},@{N='partition';E={$p.Path}},@{N='freespacepercent';E={$partition_freespace_percent_round}}

  }}

[LucD · Accepted solution]

I'm afraid there is currently no fool-proof way available to make the link between a guest OS partition and the VMDK on which it lives.

But luckily, the VCSA partition-VMDK mapping is well documented.

See for example the table in William's post Updates to VMDK partitions & disk resizing in VCSA 6.5

What you are seeing for /storage/archive is intentional and by design (see KB57829).

The issue with the warning message is fixed VCSA 6.7U1b

Note that you increase the VCSA file sizes via a REST API (/appliance/system/storage/resize)

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[jvm2016]

thnaks luc.as per the vmware kB it should be autoclearedby archiver service .

i also run your code to check all the services started .is there any specific service realted to archiver .

[LucD]

That should be the vmware-postgres-archiver service.

[jvm2016]

tx .since it is started I think as mentioned in kb 6.71b update will get rid of this.

[LucD]

The update will get rid of the message mentioned in the KB.
The partition will always be close to 100% used, that is how it set up.
The archiver will remove old entries when there is a need to have more space.

[jvm2016]

though it is by design to utilise nearly 100 percent of partition  space but update will make health  green from orange .

and this will avoid confusion of unhealthy  vcenter appliance. Is that correct?

[LucD]

That is indeed how I understood the explanation in the KB.

[jvm2016]

thanks .let me paint it green:smileylaugh: