Ruby vSphere Console (RVC) vSAN Admins Friend

Ruby vSphere Console (RVC) is console interface, it help to manage, monitor vSAN environment.

RVC comes bundled with vCenter and no additional installation is required.

Its is available for Windows based vCenter and vCenter Appliance too.

RVC will help you manage your VSAN servers, it will provide you detailed view of VSAN servers, you can also run VSAN observer service using RVC.

How to login to RVC?

1. Enable SSH on vCenter Appliance server.

2. Login to vCenter using SSH

3. Enter shell command to go to bash shell on vCenter
     >shell

4. On bash prompt Enter below command to login to RVC console and hit Enter and then Enter SSO Administrator user password to login.
# rvc Administrator@vsphere.local@localhost

e.g. 
root@dc1-vcenter01 [ ~ ]# rvc Administrator@vsphere.local@localhost
Install the "ffi" gem for better tab completion.
password:
0 /
1 localhost/
>

Navigating using RVC

#cd command to change directory, select the object number to cd it.
e.g. cd 1
#ls command to display items and then use cd command.
#mark - using mark command you create alias of any object.
e.g. in below command am creating ~cluster alias for my vsan cluster.

#mark cluster /localhost/AllenDC-VA/computers/vsan01

to use alias, you need to add ~ in front of alias/mark
#vsan.check_state ~cluster

root@dc1-vcenter01 [ ~ ]# rvc Administrator@vsphere.local@localhost
Install the "ffi" gem for better tab completion.
password:
0 /
1 localhost/
> cd 1
/localhost> ls
0 ChiDC-IL (datacenter)
1 MalDC-PA (datacenter)
2 VanDC, BC (datacenter)
3 Decomission (datacenter)
4 DCtown-MO (datacenter)
5 DCeigh-NC (datacenter)
6 DCton-MA (datacenter)
7 AllenDC-VA (datacenter)
/localhost> cd 7
/localhost/AllenDC-VA> ls
0 storage/
1 computers [host]/
2 networks [network]/
3 datastores [datastore]/
4 vms [vm]/
/localhost/AllenDC-VA> cd 1
/localhost/AllenDC-VA/computers> ls
0 gla-vsan01 (cluster): cpu 40 GHz, memory 215 GB
/localhost/AllenDC-VA/computers> cd 0
/localhost/AllenDC-VA/computers/gla-vsan01> ls
0 hosts/
1 resourcePool [Resources]: cpu 40.61/40.61/normal, mem 215.54/215.54/normal
/localhost/AllenDC-VA/computers/gla-vsan01> mark cluster /localhost/AllenDC-VA/computers/gla-vsan01
/localhost/AllenDC-VA/computers/gla-vsan01> vsan.check_state ~cluster

or you can also below command. ( notice . after command ) 
/localhost/AllenDC-VA/computers/gla-vsan01> vsan.check_state .


Useful VSAN Commands

vsan.disks_stats - management of disk groups and monitoring the health of physical disks
vsan.check_state - troubleshooting data unavailability situations and understanding object health in the VSAN cluster
vsan.resync_dashboard - Check data resync progress, visibility into data resync when changing storage policies
vsan.whatif_host_failures - understanding VSAN’s ability to tolerate node failures
vsan.proactive_rebalance - start proactive data re-balance on physical disks.
vsan.proactive_rebalance_info - check status of proactive data re-balance.

vsan.check_limits - check vsan object limits
vsan.cluster_info  - get detailed information about vsan cluster
vsan.disk_object_info - get information about all vSAN objects on a given physical disk
vsan.disks_info - get physical disk information
vsan.vm_object_info - get vsan information of a VM
vsan.vmdk_stats - get vmdkdetails.
vsan.observer ~cluster --run-webserver --force  - start web service, it collect VSAN performance statistics data. you can access vsan observer performance data by vising to https://vCenterServer_hostname_or_IP_Address:8010 URL.