How to clear or delete old vSAN partitions on decommissioned hosts
For those of us that needs to build and tear down clusters all the time for demos or lab testing, turning vSAN Services on and off is a common occurrence. When you re-enable vSAN, you will notice that under the tab to “Claim Drives” you may or may not see any drives to be available.
This is because, when you Disable vSAN Services, it doesn’t remove/delete those previous vSAN partitions. So you must first clear all partitions to refresh those drives before it can be again re-used by vSAN.
vSAN Hardware & Software Compatibility Issues
I've seen many comments from open forums about how vSAN has an extremely stringent hardware, software and firmware requirement. Opinions tend to be split between it being a good thing and a bad thing.
Unable to Prep Host in NSX 6.4 - Quick Fix for Dummies
Anyway, this is gonna be a quick post for those (who like me, with limited networking skills) troubleshoot NSX Host Preparation.
Caveat : Running Nested vSAN on a vSAN Cluster
Big fan of William Lam's PowerCLI script for deploying multiple Nested ESXi VM's for demo and POC purposes (link). Had to tweak it slightly for what I wanted it to do.
Removing Inaccessible Objects in vSAN
Having issues with vSAN - Inaccessible Objects? This post may be helpful in looking up what the issue might be.