Chapter 2. Initial Configuration and Validation of Your VSAN Cluster
In this chapter, we will discuss the following topics, with a recipe for each:
- Preparing the vCenter cluster for VSAN
- Applying VSAN licensing (optional)
- Configuring VSAN networking on a new standard switch
- Configuring VSAN networking on an existing switch
- Enabling SSH on the ESXi hosts (if applicable)
- Tagging disks as local solid-state drives (if applicable)
- Enabling VSAN on your cluster
- Manually claiming disks for use by VSAN (if applicable)
- Performing initial validation of the new VSAN cluster
- Enabling vSphere HA
Introduction
In this chapter, you will learn how to pull together all of the bits that you have prepared into a functional VSAN cluster.
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