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Demo: vSAN disk removal

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Demo: vSAN disk removal

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- [Instructor] In this video, I'm going to demonstrate how to remove a disk from an ESXI host, when that disk is part of a disk group that's participating in vSAN. And so, here you can see, again, I've got a four host cluster. Same exact cluster and same exact Demo VM that I was using in the last video. And we're going to take a look at the virtual objects here for the Demo VM. I'm going to look at my Virtual Disk for this Demo VM, and we're going to view the placement details. And here you can see where these components are actually being located. And you can even see the individual Capacity Disks. So, I'm actually going to expand this Capacity Disk view a little bit here, and I'm going to take a quick note of the Capacity Disk that is being leveraged here for this particular VM because I want to remove that Capacity Disk. Right, so my plan is to grab this Capacity Disk right here, and safely remove it. So, it's a disk on host ESXI01. So, maybe there's something wrong with that disk,…

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