Deploying a vsan datastore is different from the traditional way of mounting lun from a storage unit or nas nfs devices.
Vsan storage policy settings.
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Vsan verifies that the correct cluster resources are used at the time of provisioning.
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.
For example based on the protection policy vsan determines how many replicas to create.
If you configure the object space reservation then reservation will be done on the vsan datastore for the specified object or the vm on which this policy is assigned.
First choose the storage type as vsan from the drop down as shown.
Vsan storage polices define storage requirements for your virtual machines.
Virtual san fails to provision a virtual machine when the policy requirements are not met but it successfully creates the user defined storage policy.
Storage policy based management spbm can also benefit from naming conventions.
When used with vsan or vvols the spbm framework takes what used to be all or nothing settings defined on external storage and allows the administrator to assign storage policies to individual vms.
Now we will be adding the rules which we require for the vm on the vsan datastore.
As we are using the vsan for storage policy leave it as it is and click next.
Adaptive resync will restrict the effect of any resynchronization traffic on production workloads.
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As of vsan 6 7u3 vmc 1 8 vsan will also batch policy transitions.
These policies guarantee the required level of service for your vms because they determine how storage is allocated to the vm.
Several subsystems within vsan try and limit the impact of changing a storage policy configuration.
Vmware cloud on aws includes two vsan datastores one for the management vms vsandatastore and one for the workload vms workloaddatastore.
In this section we will be configuring the vsan storage policy.
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.
