Tuesday, November 30, 2021

vSAN object related commands

 vSAN is an object based file system. Although typically monitored via the vSphere Client, there are plenty of commands available to understand objects and their health. What follows are a few of these commands.

1. esxcli vsan debug object list.  This command displays all of the objects and components. It also displays information about the policies used, the state of the components, their location and vote count.



2. esxcli vsan debug object health summary get. Use this command to see how many objects are healthy or not.


3. esxcli vsan debug object overview. Another command that can be used to quickly view all of the objects, size, policy used and information about healthy components.