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Deploying VMware vSAN

The vSAN cluster requires at least three ESXi hosts.

  1. Log in to the vSphere Web Client. In the navigation pane, choose Host. On the Configuration page, click VMkernel Adapter under Network and create a VMkernel.
  2. On the Select Target Device page, select DPortGroup-vsan for Select an existing network and click Next.

  3. On the Port Attributes page, select vSAN and click Next.

  4. On the Set IPv4 Address page, select Use a static IPv4 address. Set the IP address of the three ESXi hosts to 11.11.12.101, 11.11.12.102, and 11.11.12.103, respectively. Then click Next.

  5. You can create a vSAN cluster or enable vSAN for an existing cluster. For details, see Creating a vSAN Cluster.

    • A disk on each ESXi host is reserved as the local datastore. Other SSDs form a disk group and are added to the vSAN cluster.
    • VM disks that have been created on the first ESXi host can be migrated to the vSAN cluster.

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