Enabling VSAN on your cluster

Now that we have prepared the cluster, applied licensing, configured networking, and prepared the physical disks, we are finally ready to enable VSAN on the cluster. The hard part is done—from here, the process is very simple and we will have a functional VSAN cluster in just a few more steps!

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 | General, and click on the Edit… button:
    How to do it…
  2. Check the Turn ON ...

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