Monitoring Your vSAN via ControlUp

  • Updated on Jul 2, 2025
  • Published on Oct 5, 2021
  • 2 minute(s) read
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You can use the vSAN (virtual SAN) storage integration feature to add and monitor each host in a vSAN cluster, which is shown as a single vSAN datastore in the Real-Time DX Console. In the following article, we provide you with all information you need to start monitoring your vSAN environment. 

vSAN Integration in the Real-Time DX Console

You can access your vSAN environment from the Real-Time DX Console. 

vSAN selected from the organization tree displaying datastores and metrics.


vSAN Integration in the VDI App

In the VDI App, you have different options to access your vSAN storage. To view all datastores of connected Hypervisors, click the Datastores button in the navigation tree.Datastores option highlighted in the VDI App topology.

If you want to focus on a specific datastore, click on Clusters and select the relevant vSAN cluster.
Clusters option highlighted in the VDI App topology.

When you select a vSAN cluster, more information on that cluster is displayed.
metrics for a specific vSANCluster visible after selected the cluster

Prerequisites

We recommend that you use a dedicated data collector for your Hypervisor connection which increases the stability and performance of the ControlUp data collection from your Hypervisor. You can also your console or monitor machine, but this might have a negative impact on performance. To learn how to set up and configure a data collector, see here. 

ESA Not Supported
ControlUp doesn't support monitoring ESA (Express Storage Architecture).

For the data collector:

  1. PowerShell version 5 or higher.
  2. PowerCLI 10.1.1.x or higher.
  3. .NET framework version 4.5 or higher.

For your vCenter user that accesses the vSAN storage:

  1. Performance service should be enabled and turned on inside the vSAN cluster.
  2. The user needs the storage.View permission
  3. The configured user must be allowed to run PowerShell scripts. Check the execution policy on the data collector and make sure that running PowerShell scripts is allowed. You can set the execution policy with the Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned command.

Adding vSAN to your ControlUp Organization

ControlUp automatically detects your vSAN storage when you first connect your vCenter server to ControlUp. Follow the steps below only if you have not connected your vCenter server to ControlUp. 

  1. Open your ControlUp Real-Time Console.
  2. Click Add Hypervisor in the Home Ribbon.
  3. Add your vCenter server and the relevant user credentials. See the to Add Hypervisor article for more information. 
  4. Once added to your Real-Time DX Console, navigate to your vSAN cluster by clicking the Storage tab.
    Storage view currently selected in the Console.

Finding vSAN Information in the Real-Time DX Console

While focusing on a vSAN cluster, vSAN dedicated presets will be displayed in the relevant views:

  • Folder view - vSAN Cluster.
  • Datastores view - vSAN Performance.
  • Datastore On Host view - vSAN Performance.

Also, we have dedicated columns for vSAN on those presets, if you wish to see the description of those columns, simply hover on top of the column with your cursor and a tooltip will be shown. You can also see the description via the Manage Columns ribbon.

For more information about the integration and troubleshooting issue in vSAN, watch the following video: