Component Metadata Health – Locating Problematic Disk

I’ve noticed a couple of customers experiencing a Component Metadata Health failure on the VSAN health check recently. This is typically what it looks like: The first thing to note is that the KB associated with this health check states the following: Note: This health check test can fail intermittently if the destaging process is slow, most likely because VSAN needs to do physical block allocations on the storage devices. To work around this issue, run the health check once more after the period of high activity (multiple virtual machine deployments, etc) is complete. If the health check continues to fail the…