Vsan Storage Policy Configuration
Last time i have implemented a vsan cluster composed of three nodes.
Vsan storage policy configuration. Make note of any errors that are presented in the configure hosts step. With vmware vsan this can all be achieved in the software defined architecture of the vsan storage model. Both datastores share the same underlying storage. For best results consider creating and using your own vm storage policies even if the requirements of the policy are same as those defined in the default storage policy.
Vsan is an software defined solution which uses storage policies to create and configure the storage for the virtual machines. This is referred to as storage policy based management spbm. You can review the configuration settings for the default virtual machine storage policy when you navigate to the vm storage policies vsan default storage policy manage rule set 1. The default vm storage policy is called virtual san default storage policy.
Vsan storage policy configuration. You can configure multiple storage policies based on your requirement and assign them to the virtual machines. Also we recommend disabling dedupe and compression as it may impact application response times. Vmware cloud on aws includes two vsan datastores one for the management vms vsandatastore and one for the workload vms workloaddatastore.
In addition to easily changing your storage configuration vmware vsan allows a powerful new way to control storage down to the vmdk level of a virtual machine. And yes you need 5 nodes to achieve this configuration. But you are encouraged to create your own and not use. In this series of vsan we already know now what is vsan and how it works.
Vsan storage polices define storage requirements for your virtual machines. What is vmware vsan. If you haven t visited yet links are available in the end of this post for all the vsan related articles. In our design we use different storage policies for the epic workloads.
Each node has four disks one for flash and three for hdd. These policies guarantee the required level of service for your vms because they determine how storage is allocated to the vm. Vsan provides the storage policies which is then assigned to each vm or vmdk object. Play with vm storage policy.
Storage policies for vm in vsan. Vsan storage policies we have discussed in the last post.