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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

Tagging disks as local solid-state drives (if applicable)


Note

If you are running vSphere 6.0, please skip this section and refer to the Tagging disks as SSDs in vSphere 6.0 recipe in Chapter 9, VSAN 6.0, if you need to tag your disks as SSDs.

Depending on the type of storage controller you are using, you may need to tell ESXi which disks are your solid-state drives. If your storage controllers present disks to the ESXi as a RAID-0 device, you will need to follow this recipe to inform ESXi about which disks are your SSDs. This recipe must be followed if devices that you know to be SSDs are detected as non-SSDs.

Note

If your storage controllers present disks to the ESXi host in pass-through mode, you may skip this recipe as the ESXi storage stack would automatically detect the SSD devices.

Getting ready

  • You should have enabled SSH on your ESXi hosts that are used for VSAN (see previous recipe)

  • You should know the size/capacity of your SSD device(s) so that they can be identified and tagged

  • You should...