In this chapter, we will discuss the following topics, with a recipe for each:
Preparing the vCenter cluster for VSAN
Applying VSAN licensing (optional)
Configuring VSAN networking on a new standard switch
Configuring VSAN networking on an existing switch
Enabling SSH on the ESXi hosts (if applicable)
Tagging disks as local solid-state drives (if applicable)
Enabling VSAN on your cluster
Manually claiming disks for use by VSAN (if applicable)
Performing initial validation of the new VSAN cluster
Enabling vSphere HA