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== Configure Shared Storage for vSphere == | == Configure Shared Storage for vSphere == | ||
== Configure the Storage Virtual Appliance for vSphere == | == Configure the Storage Virtual Appliance for vSphere == | ||
Allows 2 or 3 ESX's local storage to pooled together into a virtual datastore | |||
* VSA - vSphere Storage Appliance - deployed to each ESX providing storage to VSA cluster | |||
** Cannot be deployed to ESX that also host vCentre | |||
** Has 3 IP addresses (mgmt, datastore, backend/replication) | |||
* ESX | |||
** Must have static IP on same subnet as vCentre | |||
* Disks | |||
** 2, 4 or 8 identical disks (same model & capacity, JBOD not supported) | |||
** Must be in RAID10 on ESX, then RAID1'ed by VSA to another ESX | |||
* VMs | |||
** Cannot running on ESX prior to VSA cluster creation | |||
** Running on VSA datastores cannot swap memory, use memory reservations | |||
== Create and Configure VMFS and NFS Datastores == | == Create and Configure VMFS and NFS Datastores == | ||