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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

Manually claiming disks for use by VSAN (if applicable)


If you opted for manual disk claiming, VSAN will be enabled but the datastore will have no capacity. We will add capacity by manually determining which disks should be used by Virtual SAN.

Note

If you are using automatic disk claiming, please skip this recipe.

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 | Disk Management and click on the Claim disks button:

  2. In the resulting box, you can select which SSD and spinning disks to claim on a per-host basis. If you want to claim everything, you can click on the Select all eligible disks button. Once you have selected the disks you wish to use, click on the OK button:

  3. Depending on the number of nodes, disks, and disk groups, this process can take some time. Monitor it in the...