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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

Enabling VSAN on your cluster


Now that we have prepared the cluster, applied licensing, configured networking, and prepared the physical disks, we are finally ready to enable VSAN on the cluster. The hard part is done—from here, the process is very simple and we will have a functional VSAN cluster in just a few more steps!

Getting ready

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

How to do it…

  1. From the vSphere Web Client, navigate to: Home | Hosts and Clusters | Datacenter | Cluster | Manage | Virtual SAN | General, and click on the Edit… button:

  2. Check the Turn ON Virtual SAN checkbox and select your disk-claiming rules by selecting the appropriate option from the Add disks to storage drop-down menu, and then click on OK.

    Note

    You have two options for disk claiming

    Automatic mode will automatically claim all unused disks and SSDs for use by VSAN and will automatically construct your disk groups. When in Automatic...