Learning PowerCLI - Second Edition

Using VMware vSAN

VMware vSAN is a shared storage solution for Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) that uses local disks in ESXi servers as the media. A vSAN cluster consists of two or more ESXi hosts. Although two hosts is the minimum number required, VMware recommends using at least four hosts in a vSAN cluster. The local disks in an ESXi server can be combined into disk groups that can be all-flash or a combination of magnetic disks and flash devices, also named solid state drives or SSDs. There can be a maximum of seven disks per disk group. There is also a maximum of five disk groups on a host. At least one disk in a disk group must be SSD. SSDs will be used for read-and-write cache. Magnetic disks will be used for capacity storage. In an ...