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"vSAN Health service installation" failed on a host

 

Symptoms
" vSAN Health Service - Cluster Health - vSAN Health service installation" failed on a host in cluster.
 
and may see the following error at the same time:
a. The disk group on the failed host reports "0 of 0" under "Configure-Disk Management-Disk Groups" in “Disks in Use" column.
b. vCenter webclient may reports "The query exection timed out because of a back-end property provider 'com.vmware.vsphere.client.vsan.health.VsanHealthPropertyProvider' which took more than 120 seconds.
 
Purpose
Help troubling "vSAN Health Service - Cluster Health - vSAN Health service installation" failure.
Cause
vsanmgmtd service is not running on the host.
Impact / Risks
The vSAN Health Service does not work.
Resolution
Verify the vsanmgmtd service on all hosts in the vSAN cluster with
/etc/init.d/vsanmgmtd status
 
If it is not running, start it with
/etc/init.d/vsanmgmtd restart
 
Verify if this issue is resolved.

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