Implementing VSAN Home Lab on AWS using Ravello

Requirements

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.