Implementing VSAN Home Lab on AWS using Ravello
Requirements
- 3 ESXi Hosts
- vCenter Install
- A domain Controller with Reverse lookup enabled
Step 1
Create a New Cluster in vCenter
Enable VSAN in new cluster and leave the default automatic disk discovery
Drag and Drop all 3 ESXi hosts into the new cluster
Or right click on an ESXi host and choose move to and select the cluster
Getting ESXI hosts ready for VSAN
For each ESXi host, go to Configure/Networking /VMKernel adapter, select the existing network
and choose edit and allow VSAN traffic through it.
Do this for all 3 ESXi Hosts
At this point those who meet the hardware requirement will see that VSAN is installed and in good health.
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We are not done yet. For VSAN to work we need to meet the hardware compatibility requirement of having flash ssd storage:
So we need to go to each ESXi host and mark at least one disk as flash
In vCenter
Choose an ESXi host and go to Configure/Storage/ Storage Devices
Choose one of the disks and “mark it as flash” using the green square with an f
After selecting at least one disk as flash on each ESXI host, we should now be able to see a healthy VSAN installed.
Go To the Cluster/Monitor/Virtual SAN and you should be able to see the total VSAN storage
We are now ready to use VSAN storage
We have successfully implemented a VSAN on amazon OWS using Ravello.