• This was done in my VCF lab on 5.2 on OSA vSAN
  • Check de-dupe and compression is off
  • Check your virtual machine capacity total and check your storage policy. Workout how much capacity you require for vSAN. vSAN will slow down once it reaches about 70%.
  • In my lab I was only able to remove one disk at a time without an error.

  • In my lab I did this without putting the host in maintenance mode, no outage to virtual machines
  • Check your capacity in vCenter and take note

  • Check how many disks you have in disk management

  • Take note of the disk being removed and ensure it is the vSAN capacity disk

  • Check unclaimed disks (once you remove the capacity disk you will have an extra disk available)

  • Check disk space in SDDC Manager for workload make sure it matches vcenter

  • Select disk and click remove

  • Do a full data migration and click remove

  • Monitor task

  • Monitor resync

  • I have now 2 disks available in unclaimed

By Kader

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