When diagnosing and resolving a disk failure in a VMware vSAN cluster — especially with Deduplication and Compression enabled — the most appropriate and comprehensive tool is: vSAN Skyline Health
This tool provides:
-Real-time health checks specific to vSAN components (disks, network, cluster, etc.)
-Awareness of advanced features like Deduplication and Compression
-Guided diagnostics and automated recommendations
-Visibility into disk group issues, such as component failures, object health, and unmounted disk groups
Skyline Advisor (cloud service): EOL since October 4, 2024 — discontinued.
Skyline Health (in‑product) and Skyline Health Diagnostics (on‑prem): still supported and recommended for troubleshooting — including diagnosing disk issues in vSAN.
VMware Skyline Advisor service is EOL but vSAN Skyline Health is still available, please verify.
https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article/319011/vmware-skyline-frequently-asked-question.html
https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-cis/vsan/vsan/8-0/vsan-monitoring/monitoring-vsan-skyline-health/about-the-vsan-skyline-health.html
I might choose D.
Q: What is happening to the in-product Skyline Health for vSphere and vSAN?
A: The in-product Skyline health features continue to be available and are not impacted by the End of Life of the Skyline Advisor services. Our vision is to bring the high value features of the Skyline Advisor service into the VCF products and continue to help deliver a positive support experience for our customers.
Answer is C
Skyline is deprecated
The below KB recommends using ESXCLI to troubleshoot. A disk failure causes entire disk group to fail when Dedup is turned on
https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article/327008/vsan-deduplication-enabled-identifying.html
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