How to Check the ESXi Maintenance Mode Status from the vSAN Perspective

This video will demonstrate the how to check ESXi maintenance mode status from the vSAN perspective in Dell EMC VxRail.

Hello and welcome to this new video. Today. We are going to see how to check the ESXi maintenance mode status from the V sign perspective to check if an ESXi has entered maintenance mode with Vsan or is stuck open an SSH session to any one of the hosts log in and ran the following command.

The output should be similar to this for every single one of the hosts as you can see since no host is now entering maintenance mode, the DCOM state is zero for every host. Now, we will try to put the host in maintenance mode and see what are the changes that occur. I would recommend always running the pres before entering maintenance mode as you can see.

Now, we have one host that is stating Decom State four. This means that the host is currently entering maintenance mode. We give it some time until it fully enters maintenance mode and now, we tried to run the command again. Now this host is stating DCOM state six. This means that the node is currently in maintenance mode from a Vsan perspective. If a note is stuck in entering or exiting maintenance mode.

For any reason, you would usually find that when you right click the hosts, you go to maintenance mode, both options would be grayed out. If this happens. For any reason, you can always try to run the following command to exit maintenance mode. And this is how we can check the ESXi maintenance smoke through Visan.

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