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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

Recovering a VSAN cluster in the event that vCenter is lost/migrating a VSAN cluster to a new vCenter server


If vCenter has failed and has been replaced, or if you need to move your VSAN cluster to a new/different vCenter Server instance, a new vCenter cluster should be prepared prior to the addition of the existing VSAN nodes to vCenter. If the procedure outlined in the recipe is not followed, it should not cause any production problems in VSAN, but it will result in warnings, failure messaging, etc., and certain operations may fail if VSAN licensing is not transferred.

Getting ready

This recipe assumes that the new vCenter server is built, licensed, and ready for use. A datacentre should already exist.

You should be logged into vSphere Web Client as an administrator.

How to do it…

  1. From vSphere Web Client, navigate to Home | Hosts and Clusters | Datacenter.

  2. Right-click the datacentre and select New Cluster….

  3. In the subsequent wizard, ensure that you enable Virtual SAN. If the cluster originally...