Is vSAN included in ESXi?

Is vSAN included in ESXi?

Even though you can run VSAN using Free ESXi and leveraging the default VM Storage Policy that is built into VSAN for protecting Virtual Machines, you are only exercising a tiny portion of the potential that VSAN can bring when consuming it through vCenter Server.

How do I enable vSAN on ESXi?

To enable vSAN on an existing the cluster:

1. Open the vSphere Web Client.
2. Click the Hosts and Clusters tab.
3. Select the cluster on which you want to enable vSAN.
4. Click the Manage tab.
5. Click Settings.
6. Under Virtual SAN, select General and click Edit.
7. Select the mode for storage disks to be claimed.
8. Click OK.

What is ESXi vSAN?

VMware vSAN is a distributed layer of software that runs natively as a part of the ESXi hypervisor. vSAN aggregates local or direct-attached capacity devices of a host cluster and creates a single storage pool shared across all hosts in the vSAN cluster.

How many maximum ESXi hosts are allowed for vSAN?

In vSAN Stretched Cluster maximum number of data hosts on each site is 15.

Is vSAN a block storage?

vSAN does not behave like traditional storage volumes based on LUNs or NFS shares. The iSCSI target service uses LUNs to enable an initiator on a remote host to transport block-level data to a storage device in the vSAN cluster. Instead a vSphere administrator can manage a vSAN environment.

Does vSAN need vSphere?

vSAN is integrated with the VMware vSphere Hypervisor, so there’s no need to install additional software or deploy storage controller virtual appliances to every host in the cluster, as is often the case. Only vCenter Server is required to configure and manage a vSAN cluster.

How do I configure vSAN?

Procedure

1. Navigate to an existing cluster in the vSphere Web Client.
2. Click the Configure tab.
3. Under vSAN, select General and click the Configure button.
4. Select vSAN capabilities.
5. Click Next.
6. On the Network validation page, check the settings for vSAN VMkernel adapters, and click Next.

What is vSAN in storage?

A virtual storage area network (virtual SAN, VSAN or vSAN) is a logical representation of a physical storage area network (SAN). The use of VSANs allows the isolation of traffic within specific portions of the network.

What is vSAN stand for?

virtual storage area network
A virtual storage area network (VSAN)—a software-defined storage (SDS) management architecture—has enormous benefits, including enhanced flexibility and scalability. VMware vSAN—denoted with lowercase “v” in vSAN—is VMware’s hyper-converged SDS solution.

Is vSAN a VM?

vSAN Architecture VMware vSAN uses object-based storage architecture where each object represents a block of data within the underlying Virtual Machine (VM). A vSphere cluster is the primary management unit for the VMware vSAN. You can create a vSphere cluster as either an all-flash cluster or hybrid vSAN.