Daily health checks should confirm three things before any operational work begins: the OpenShift platform is healthy, the Portworx storage layer is healthy, and the FlashArray data paths are intact. The purpose of this section is not to perform full root-cause analysis every day, but to give administrators a repeatable checklist that detects early warning signs before they affect virtual machines, container workloads, or storage operations.
In environments supporting both OpenShift Virtualization and containerized applications, these checks should be treated as the minimum operational baseline. If any of them fail, administrators should pause non-essential changes until the fault domain is understood.
Read the next few pages to learn more about these health check processes.