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VMware Virtual SAN Cookbook

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VMware Virtual SAN Cookbook

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
VMware Virtual SAN Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Configuring VSAN networking on an existing switch


Note

If you need to create a new standard switch for VSAN traffic, please skip this recipe and go back to the previous recipe, Configuring VSAN networking on a new standard switch.

Networking is the glue that holds the VSAN distributed storage nodes together. To permit redundancy, storage delivery, policy management, and so on, a robust and properly-configured network is key. From within vSphere, VSAN is enabled on a network interface as a service. If you are familiar with creating and enabling vMotion, management, and fault tolerance interfaces, you are already familiar with this process!

This recipe will cover the creation of a new VMkernel network interface in an existing vSwitch or dvPortGroup.

Getting ready

  • You should be logged in to the vSphere Web Client as an administrator or user, authorized to alter cluster-level settings and networking

  • There should be physical 1GbE or 10GbE interfaces available for use by VSAN

  • You should have a unique...