VMware vSAN HCI Mesh

VMware HCI Mesh was introduced with vSphere 7.0 Update 2 and allowed you to remotely connect to one or more VMware vSAN datastores from another vSAN cluster. In Figure 4.12, there are three VxRail clusters (one server and two clients). Two VxRail clusters (Client) are remotely connected to a vSAN datastore from the VxRail cluster (Server). vSAN HCI Mesh can be used for balancing storage resources by migrating VMs to other vSAN clusters using vSphere Storage vMotion.

Now, compute clusters can connect to the remote vSAN datastores. You can define the different storage tier vSAN storage policies (for example, RAID-1, RAID-5, deduplication, encryption, and All-Flash) and apply them to the different tier VMs in the vSAN cluster. HCI Mesh brings together multiple independent clusters for a native, cross-cluster architecture that disaggregates compute and storage resources and enables efficient utilization of storage capacity. HCI Mesh is used to share the storage...