vSphere 5.x Tip To Toe: Replace a vSphere Storage Appliance (5.5)

I was troubleshooting at a customer’s site and I found out that one of the appliances for some reason is corrupt from a configuration perspective, the cluster would always see the appliance offline when the datastores are online and mounted.

Anyway,  I decided to replace the appliance but prior to that I had done some testing in my lab and I produced a video out of it, the reason behind it is that the flexibility of the VSA is so great I actually enjoyed ripping it off and replacing it :-D.

I do hope you enjoy it, on the other hand I didn’t remove any errors that had occurred while replacing the appliance, probably you won’t face them but it’s good to see them :).

Reference: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2004837
(Abdullah)^2