In the homelab I came across an error message at the vSAN cluster object level, I wanted to dig further into it and after some help from Google, I did locate the following VMware By Broadcom KB – Article ID: 317847 vSAN Health Service – Performance Service – Stats DB object conflicts check
Always ensure to take proper precautions and contact Broadcom support if needed.
This did come down to a slam-dunk fix, the following will go through how I dug a little bit for it and eventually resolved.
This is the following error that appears at the cluster
From the cluster object in vSphere selected click ‘Monitor’ >> Skyline Health >> it appeared under the ‘Unhealthy’ category and click ‘TROUBLESHOOT’
The next screen will display the renamed folder that exists and it’s important to note “you cannot merge the files” however you can always backup the folder or rename it.
Within vSphere I went to locate the vSANdatastore and found the directory that was renamed and causing the conflict, I browsed the directory and there are some files older than the root folder above you.
In order to delete you have to click on the root of the datastore on the left-pane and then select folder >> then ‘Delete’
The following is a screen grab from deleting the vsan trace-1 folder
After a few minutes, the error cleared up.
