When you try to remove the missing disk from vsan disk management in vcenter it fails as it is missing. The below is to remove the missing disk via command line from the affected esxi host.

Put the host into maintenance mode do a full evacuation when doing this.

Login to you esx host via command line

Type the below make sure you use the full vSAN UUID of the absent disk

esxcli vsan storage remove -u 52dac488-fdb

You can also get the vSAN UUID from the below command

vdq -Hi

The other way to get the vSAN UUID type the below find the disk that is “unknown”

esxcli vsan storage list

By Kader