Since vSAN is already implemented directly into ESXi, activating the functionality simply requires planning and enabling the configuration, along with the appropriate VMware vSAN licenses. Multiple vSAN clusters can be created and managed within a single vCenter Server. Non-disruptive scale out can be achieved by adding more ESXi hosts, either in the same cluster or a new cluster, and scale up by adding more disks to the existing hardware. Functionality is abstracted from the underlying hardware and managed at a software level, within vCenter, to provide granular policy based availability and controls. vSAN enables aggregation of local or directly-attached devices and pools them together across hosts in a vSphere cluster to provide a single shared storage pool. VMware vSAN is a software-defined storage solution baked directly into the vSphere hypervisor. To read about what’s new see vSphere 7 and vSAN 7 Headline New Features. At the time of writing the latest version of vSAN is vSAN 7.0 Update 1. This second post in a new lab series provides a walkthrough for installing the latest iteration of vSAN 7.
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