vSAN - unable to remove failed disk from disk group

[virtualizingtheworld]

Hi,

Is it not best practice to remove the failed disk from the disk group before its replacement?

Am unable to do so:

 

 

[viquarhcimca]

https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/67856

https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2150593

https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2150567

 

Please follow the above kbs. 

 

[virtualizingtheworld]

This was the closest one: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2150567

in this case the disk can be removed manually as follows:

Verify the disk appears: (Was showing as Device: Uknown and had matching UUID)

esxcli vsan storage list

Remove the disk:

esxcli vsan storage remove --uuid xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

and the verify its removed with:

esxcli vsan storage list

 

Above process worked fine and solved the issue