VMware vSAN Deployment

it_user616041 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Administrator at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

The only issue I encountered during deployment was with the hardware and not with vSAN itself. The disks in the new servers were installed at the factory as RAID disks. I had to mark them as non-RAID disks, so that vSAN would be able to see them correctly for addition to disk groups.

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it_user616041 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Administrator at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

The only issue I encountered during deployment was with the hardware and not with vSAN itself.

The disks in the new servers were installed at the factory as RAID disks. I had to mark them as non-RAID disks so that vSAN would be able to see them correctly in order to add them to disk groups.

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it_user316422 - PeerSpot reviewer
Virtualization & Storage Administrator at Franklin University

Prior to deployment, make sure you check your hardware compatibility prior, along with the drivers and firmware, because any one of those three things can cause an outage.

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VMware vSAN
March 2024
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Data Center Engineer at Strategic Solutions of Virginia

We had one issue with deployment, which was related to using the legacy vsphere client to place the hosts into maintenance mode. Which is easily resolved by using the web client for maintenance.

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it_user315327 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Specialist at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
it_user645621 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Consultant EUC and Cloud at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

Yes. MTU settings will be vary depending upon network switch.

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it_user315741 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Advisor IT Architecture for Cloud Computing Solutions at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I tried to install it on one cluster and the host got stuck.

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it_user315600 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
it_user280782 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

No issues encountered.

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Buyer's Guide
VMware vSAN
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about VMware vSAN. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
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