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# How to Silence Warnings on vSAN health Plugin
- URL: https://admin.hareeshkg.bid/how-to-silence-warnings-on-vsan-health-plugin/
- Published: 2017-09-30T14:51:18.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-12T14:44:29.000Z
- Author: Hareesh K G
- Tags: vSAN Troubleshooting, vSAN-general

How to silence warnings on vSAN health Plugin? There are many situations that you may be aware of a particular warning which is not very critical and which is something you are already aware of , however you would like to have the warning silenced or disabled and would like to see the health check come clean every-time time you log in the web-client . There may be known warnings on the vSAN health check plugin you may see in a vSAN cluster , Ex : vMotion: MTU check (ping with large packet size) , vSAN Build Recommendation Engine Health , Component metadata health, Customer experience improvement program (CEIP) and vSAN HCL DB Auto Update ..etc.

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### **Component metadata health check fails with invalid state error on vSAN?**

You may be wondering if there is a way we can disable a certain which you are already aware of and which should not be impacting your environment such as ” Component metadata health” . This issue was only seen with vSAN release 6.2 running version be ESXi 6.0 Update3 Patch 05 (6.0 Update 3a) , please see [KB:Component-Meta-Data-Health\_check-Fail](https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en%5FUS&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2145347&ref=admin.hareeshkg.bid)

The above error is only thrown on stale components that reside on the vSAN datastore and doesnot essentially impact any of your VM or VM objects , these are stale /left over objects which are on certain disks in a diskgroup and generally go away when you delete and re-create the disk , however this is an unnecessary task and will be a very costly operation when it comes to all flash setup as we cannot delete an individual disk and whole DG will be needing a deletion and re-creation . This will trigger a very huge resync , possibly overrun your vSAN network bandwidth which can cause impact to your production VMs, it is okay to ignore this error .

### Silence a check or warning on vSAN health Plugin

We can use vSAN RVC client to disable certain checks on vsan so that we donot see the warning on webclient going forward .

### Step1 : Log into RVC console . See [how-to-login -to-RVC](https://admin.hareeshkg.bid/post/how-to-login-into-rvc/)

### Step2 : Navigate to your respective vSAN cluster for which we would like to silence /suppress /disable a warning . We will be using commands “vsan.health.silent\_health\_check\_status” and “vsan.health.silent\_health\_check\_configure”

Command Usage :

A) /localhost/vsan66-AF-DELL/computers/vsan66-ALL-FLASH-DELL> vsan.health.silent\_health\_check\_status --help usage: silent\_health\_check\_status cluster... Get the current silent health check list for the given cluster cluster: Path to a ClusterComputeResource -h, --help Show this message B) /localhost/vsan66-AF-DELL/computers/vsan66-ALL-FLASH-DELL> vsan.health.silent\_health\_check\_configure --help usage: silent\_health\_check\_configure \[opts\] cluster Configure silent health check list for the given cluster cluster: Path to a ClusterComputeResource -a, --add-checks= ~~Add checks to silent list, usage: -a \[Health Check Id\]. -r, --remove-checks= Remove checks from silent list, usage: -r \[Health Check Id\]. To restore the silent check list, using '-r all' -i, --interactive-add Use interactive mode to add checks to the silent list -n, --interactive-remove Use interactive mode to remove checks from the silent list -h, --help Show this message~~

~~To see list of all available health checks , their IDs and current silience status , run , run command “\*\*vsan.health.silent\_health\_check\_status .\*\*”~~

### ~~Step3 : To disable a certain a health check , here in this case it is “componentmetadata” .~~

~~We may silence this warning by either using the interactive method using switch -i (–interactive) or by using switch -a (–add-checks).~~

~~To disable using interactive Method run command “**vsan.health.silent\_health\_check\_configure . -i**” , in our case the number is 58 which we need to enter for component metadata health check to be disabled .~~

### ~~Step4 : Verify and confirm if component Meta data health is silenced by running “**vsan.health.silent\_health\_check\_status .**” and webclient.~~

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