If you want a host to leave a VSAN cluster you have two options in my opinion:
- Place it in maintenance mode with full data migration and remove it from the cluster
- Run the following command from the ESXi command line:
esxcli vsan cluster leave
Please keep that in mind when you do maintenance… Do not use “disconnect” but actually remove the host from the cluster if you do not want it to participate in VSAN any longer.
P.S.
Enable ssh connection from the ESXi GUI interface.