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Start-VsanClusterRebalance

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NAME Start-VsanClusterRebalance



SYNOPSIS

This cmdlet starts the proactive rebalance of the vSAN objects on the cluster hosts based on the vSAN disks usage

when the disks are in imbalanced state.





SYNTAX

Start-VsanClusterRebalance [-Cluster] <Cluster[]> [-Server <VIServer[]>] [-Confirm] [-WhatIf] [<CommonParameters>]





DESCRIPTION

This cmdlet starts the proactive rebalance of the vSAN objects on the cluster hosts based on the vSAN disks usage

when the disks are in imbalanced state. The typical use case is to add a new host or disk to the vSAN cluster.

Rebalancing increases the background I/O requirements for data movements.





PARAMETERS

-Cluster <Cluster[]>

Specifies the vSAN cluster on which you want to start the proactive rebalance of the vSAN objects.



Required? true

Position? 1

Default value None

Accept pipeline input? True (ByValue)

Accept wildcard characters? true



-Server <VIServer[]>

Specifies the vCenter Server systems on which you want to run the cmdlet. If no value is given to this

parameter, the command runs on the default servers. For more information about default servers, see the

description of Connect-VIServer.



Required? false

Position? named

Default value None

Accept pipeline input? False

Accept wildcard characters? true



-Confirm [<SwitchParameter>]

If the value is $true, indicates that the cmdlet asks for confirmation before running. If the value is $false,

the cmdlet runs without asking for user confirmation.



Required? false

Position? named

Default value False

Accept pipeline input? False

Accept wildcard characters? false



-WhatIf [<SwitchParameter>]

Indicates that the cmdlet is run only to display the changes that would be made and actually no objects are

modified.



Required? false

Position? named

Default value False

Accept pipeline input? False

Accept wildcard characters? false



<CommonParameters>

This cmdlet supports the common parameters: Verbose, Debug,

ErrorAction, ErrorVariable, WarningAction, WarningVariable,

OutBuffer, PipelineVariable, and OutVariable. For more information, see

about_CommonParameters (https:/go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=113216).



INPUTS



OUTPUTS

The task object to track the proactive rebalance operation







NOTES









-------------------------- Example 1 --------------------------



Start-VsanClusterRebalance -Cluster $vsanCluster



Starts the proactive rebalance of the $vsanCluster vSAN cluster.



RELATED LINKS

Online Version: https://code.vmware.com/doc/preview?id= ... lance.html

Stop-VsanClusterRebalance