Host health monitoring monitors whether the system disks and memory of hosts in the cluster are in a healthy state. These features will automatically reduce the priority of unhealthy host in the process of VM startup, HA, and other tasks. Only support to detect the host memory ECC/UECC failure, HDD bad sector, SSD remaining lifetime, and system disk read-only issue.

To enable the host health monitoring, require to enable the option Enable host health monitoring.

To remove the unhealthy host automatically, select Auto-removed from unhealthy host list. The status of unhealthy hosts will be checked upon each startup and reboot. Hosts restored to the normal state will be automatically removed from the list below.

To notify the user, you can configure the alarm notification by email.

HCI automatically detects the unhealthy host and display in the unhealthy host list. The issue and solution will be also displayed in the list.

To remove the unhealthy host manually, you can click on the remove operation remove the host from the list after resolving the issue.