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VMware Virtual SAN Cookbook: The perfect guide to successful VMware Virtual SAN implementation and operations, with recipes to guide you through the process

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VMware Virtual SAN Cookbook

Chapter 2. Initial Configuration and Validation of Your VSAN Cluster

In this chapter, we will discuss the following topics, with a recipe for each:

  • Preparing the vCenter cluster for VSAN
  • Applying VSAN licensing (optional)
  • Configuring VSAN networking on a new standard switch
  • Configuring VSAN networking on an existing switch
  • Enabling SSH on the ESXi hosts (if applicable)
  • Tagging disks as local solid-state drives (if applicable)
  • Enabling VSAN on your cluster
  • Manually claiming disks for use by VSAN (if applicable)
  • Performing initial validation of the new VSAN cluster
  • Enabling vSphere HA

Introduction

In this chapter, you will learn how to pull together all of the bits that you have prepared into a functional VSAN cluster.

By now, you will have selected the appropriate hardware to suit your needs by referencing the VMware Compatibility Guide. You will also have physically deployed your hardware, installed ESXi, created a cluster in vCenter, and added the hosts to that cluster.

Preparing the vCenter cluster for VSAN

There are some cluster-level prerequisites that must be satisfied before VSAN can be enabled. As we have already discussed, you will need a minimum of three hosts, with a minimum of one SSD and one spinning disk or capacity-tier SSD per host. This is probably optional, but it would help with 5.5/6.0 convergence of the text.

In addition, the following prerequisites need to be satisfied:

  • Disable vSphere HA
  • Apply licensing
  • Configure networking
  • Tagging disks as SSDs if using RAID-0 mode

Getting ready

You should be logged in to the vSphere Web Client as an administrator or user, authorized to alter cluster-level settings. All VSAN operations must be executed via the vSphere Web Client. The legacy vSphere Client is not supported for VSAN operations.

How to do it…

  1. To disable vSphere HA in preparation for VSAN enablement, you must browse the vSphere Web Client. Navigate to Home | Hosts and Clusters | Datacenter | Cluster | Manage:
    How to do it…
  2. If vSphere HA is enabled, click...

Applying VSAN licensing (optional)

Although it is integrated with vSphere and exists as a native extension to the ESXi hypervisor, VSAN is a separately licensed product. Like all vSphere products, VSAN will enable without a license for the default 60-day evaluation period. Despite this, it is best to license the VSAN cluster prior to full deployment, so as to avoid potential complications resulting from license expiration.

Getting ready

You should be logged in to the vSphere Web Client as an administrator or user, authorized to alter cluster-level settings and licensing/entitlement.

How to do it…

To add your VSAN license, you must browse the vSphere Web Client:

  1. Navigate to Home | Licensing | License Keys.
  2. Click on the green + icon to add a license key.
  3. Enter or paste your license key into the textbox.
  4. Click on Next.

How it works…

VSAN is licensed per-cluster. As VSAN is a distributed product, it is cluster-centric rather than host-centric. The license is applied to the vSphere cluster...

Configuring VSAN networking on a new standard switch

Note

If you are using the distributed virtual switch or already have a vSwitch configured, please skip this recipe and continue to the next recipe, Configuring VSAN networking on an existing switch.

Networking is the glue that holds the VSAN distributed storage nodes together. To permit redundancy, storage access, policy management, and so on, a robust and properly-configured network is key. From within vSphere, VSAN is enabled on a network interface as a service. If you are familiar with creating and enabling vMotion, management, and fault tolerance interfaces, you are already familiar with this process!

This recipe will cover the creation of a new VMkernel network interface in a new vSwitch with previously unused physical network adapters.

Getting ready

  • You should be logged in to the vSphere Web Client as an administrator or user, authorized to alter cluster-level settings and networking.
  • There should be physical 1GbE or 10GbE interfaces...

Configuring VSAN networking on an existing switch

Note

If you need to create a new standard switch for VSAN traffic, please skip this recipe and go back to the previous recipe, Configuring VSAN networking on a new standard switch.

Networking is the glue that holds the VSAN distributed storage nodes together. To permit redundancy, storage delivery, policy management, and so on, a robust and properly-configured network is key. From within vSphere, VSAN is enabled on a network interface as a service. If you are familiar with creating and enabling vMotion, management, and fault tolerance interfaces, you are already familiar with this process!

This recipe will cover the creation of a new VMkernel network interface in an existing vSwitch or dvPortGroup.

Getting ready

  • You should be logged in to the vSphere Web Client as an administrator or user, authorized to alter cluster-level settings and networking
  • There should be physical 1GbE or 10GbE interfaces available for use by VSAN
  • You should have a unique...

Enabling SSH on the ESXi hosts (if applicable)

Note

If you are running vSphere 6.0, please skip this section and refer to the Tagging disks as SSDs in vSphere 6.0 recipe in Chapter 9, VSAN 6.0, if you need to tag your disks as SSDs.

If you need to tag disks as SSD devices, you will need CLI access to the ESXi host. If we are using RAID-0 storage controllers, ESXi will detect the SSDs as normal magnetic drives due to the way RAID-0 controllers present storage to the operating system. The tagging process will only be applicable to SSDs that were not correctly identified as such by default. The SSD-tagging process requires several commands in vSphere 5.5 and it is easiest to perform these steps via a remote console (SSH).

Note

If SSH is already enabled on your hosts or if you will not need to tag SSDs, please skip this recipe.

Getting ready

You should be logged in to the vSphere Web Client as an administrator or user, authorized to alter host-level security profile settings.

How to do it…

To...

Introduction

In this chapter, you will learn how to pull together all of the bits that you have prepared into a functional VSAN cluster.

By now, you will have selected the appropriate hardware to suit your needs by referencing the VMware Compatibility Guide. You will also have physically deployed your hardware, installed ESXi, created a cluster in vCenter, and added the hosts to that cluster.

Preparing the vCenter cluster for VSAN

There are some cluster-level prerequisites that must be satisfied before VSAN can be enabled. As we have already discussed, you will need a minimum of three hosts, with a minimum of one SSD and one spinning disk or capacity-tier SSD per host. This is probably optional, but it would help with 5.5/6.0 convergence of the text.

In addition, the following prerequisites need to be satisfied:

  • Disable vSphere HA

  • Apply licensing

  • Configure networking

  • Tagging disks as SSDs if using RAID-0 mode

Getting ready

You should be logged in to the vSphere Web Client as an administrator or user, authorized to alter cluster-level settings. All VSAN operations must be executed via the vSphere Web Client. The legacy vSphere Client is not supported for VSAN operations.

How to do it…

  1. To disable vSphere HA in preparation for VSAN enablement, you must browse the vSphere Web Client. Navigate to Home | Hosts and Clusters | Datacenter | Cluster | Manage:

  2. If vSphere HA is enabled, click on the...

Applying VSAN licensing (optional)

Although it is integrated with vSphere and exists as a native extension to the ESXi hypervisor, VSAN is a separately licensed product. Like all vSphere products, VSAN will enable without a license for the default 60-day evaluation period. Despite this, it is best to license the VSAN cluster prior to full deployment, so as to avoid potential complications resulting from license expiration.

Getting ready

You should be logged in to the vSphere Web Client as an administrator or user, authorized to alter cluster-level settings and licensing/entitlement.

How to do it…

To add your VSAN license, you must browse the vSphere Web Client:

  1. Navigate to Home | Licensing | License Keys.

  2. Click on the green + icon to add a license key.

  3. Enter or paste your license key into the textbox.

  4. Click on Next.

How it works…

VSAN is licensed per-cluster. As VSAN is a distributed product, it is cluster-centric rather than host-centric. The license is applied to the vSphere cluster within vCenter...

Configuring VSAN networking on a new standard switch

Note

If you are using the distributed virtual switch or already have a vSwitch configured, please skip this recipe and continue to the next recipe, Configuring VSAN networking on an existing switch.

Networking is the glue that holds the VSAN distributed storage nodes together. To permit redundancy, storage access, policy management, and so on, a robust and properly-configured network is key. From within vSphere, VSAN is enabled on a network interface as a service. If you are familiar with creating and enabling vMotion, management, and fault tolerance interfaces, you are already familiar with this process!

This recipe will cover the creation of a new VMkernel network interface in a new vSwitch with previously unused physical network adapters.

Getting ready

  • You should be logged in to the vSphere Web Client as an administrator or user, authorized to alter cluster-level settings and networking.

  • There should be physical 1GbE or 10GbE interfaces available...

Configuring VSAN networking on an existing switch

Note

If you need to create a new standard switch for VSAN traffic, please skip this recipe and go back to the previous recipe, Configuring VSAN networking on a new standard switch.

Networking is the glue that holds the VSAN distributed storage nodes together. To permit redundancy, storage delivery, policy management, and so on, a robust and properly-configured network is key. From within vSphere, VSAN is enabled on a network interface as a service. If you are familiar with creating and enabling vMotion, management, and fault tolerance interfaces, you are already familiar with this process!

This recipe will cover the creation of a new VMkernel network interface in an existing vSwitch or dvPortGroup.

Getting ready

  • You should be logged in to the vSphere Web Client as an administrator or user, authorized to alter cluster-level settings and networking

  • There should be physical 1GbE or 10GbE interfaces available for use by VSAN

  • You should have a unique...

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Description

VMware Virtual SAN is a radically simple, hypervisor-converged storage, designed and optimized for vSphere virtual infrastructure. VMware introduced the software to help customers store more and more virtual machines. As data centers continue to evolve and grow, managing infrastructure becomes more challenging. Traditional storage solutions like monolithic storage arrays and complex management are often ill-suited to the needs of the modern data center. Software-defined storage solutions, like VMware Virtual SAN, integrate the storage side of the infrastructure with the server side, and can simplify management and improve flexibility. This book is a detailed guide which provides you with the knowledge you need to successfully implement and manage VMware VSAN and deployed infrastructures. You will start with an introduction to VSAN and object storage, before moving on to hardware selection, critical to a successful VSAN deployment. Next, you will discover how to prepare your existing infrastructure to support your VSAN deployment and explore Storage policy-Based Management, including policy changes, maintenance, validation, and troubleshooting VSAN. Finally, the book provides recipes to expedite the resolution process and gather all the information required to pursue a rapid resolution.

Who is this book for?

If you are an administrator of a VMware vSphere infrastructure and want to simplify storage delivery by integrating storage into vSphere, this book is for you. No extensive storage background is needed as VMware Virtual SAN integrates into the existing vSphere solutions with which you are already familiar.

What you will learn

  • Prepare your infrastructure for VMware Virtual SAN
  • Plan and build infrastructure solutions to suit your needs
  • Implement VMware Virtual SAN
  • Exploit the power of policybased management
  • Increase or decrease the scale of your Virtual SAN as needs change
  • Monitor your Virtual SAN infrastructure effectively
  • Respond to and troubleshoot problems

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12 Chapters
1. Hardware Selection for Your VSAN Cluster Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
1. Hardware Selection for Your VSAN Cluster
Introduction
Using the VMware Compatibility Guides
Selecting a server platform
Selecting a storage controller
Selecting a solid-state drive (SSD) for the cache tier
Selecting capacity tier disks
Deciding on a network standard
Choosing a VSAN Ready Node (an alternative option)
2. Initial Configuration and Validation of Your VSAN Cluster Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
2. Initial Configuration and Validation of Your VSAN Cluster
Introduction
Preparing the vCenter cluster for VSAN
Applying VSAN licensing (optional)
Configuring VSAN networking on a new standard switch
Configuring VSAN networking on an existing switch
Enabling SSH on the ESXi hosts (if applicable)
Tagging disks as local solid-state drives (if applicable)
Enabling VSAN on your cluster
Manually claiming disks for use by VSAN (if applicable)
Performing initial validation of the new VSAN cluster
Enabling vSphere HA
3. Storage Policy-based Management Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
3. Storage Policy-based Management
Introduction
Creating VM storage policies
Applying storage policies to a new VM or a VM deployed from a template
Applying storage policies to an existing VM migrating to VSAN
Viewing a VM's storage policies and object distribution
Changing storage policies on a VM already residing in VSAN
Modifying existing storage policies
Summary
4. Monitoring VSAN Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
4. Monitoring VSAN
Introduction
Examining VSAN datastore health
Examining VSAN disk health
Examining VM object health
Creating VSAN-specific alarms
Examining VSAN resync activity (vSphere 6.0)
5. VSAN Maintenance Operations Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
5. VSAN Maintenance Operations
Introduction
Understanding and using VSAN Maintenance Mode
Adding disks to VSAN
Removing disks/disk groups from VSAN
Replacing disks in VSAN in the event of a disk failure
Changing VSAN networking
Permanently decommissioning a VSAN node
Recovering a VSAN cluster in the event that vCenter is lost/migrating a VSAN cluster to a new vCenter server
6. Ruby vSphere Console Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Introduction
Launching RVC (Windows vCenter)
Launching RVC (Linux vCenter Appliance)
Navigating RVC
The vsan.cluster_info command
The vsan.disks_stats command
The vsan.vm_object_info command
The vsan.vm_perf_stats command
The vsan.resync_dashboard command
7. Troubleshooting VSAN Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
7. Troubleshooting VSAN
Introduction
Investigating network partitions (with vSphere Web Client)
Investigating network partitions (without vSphere Web Client)
Investigating storage provider registration problems
Investigating other SPBM problems
Investigating VM provisioning or power-on failures
Investigating disk failures
Investigating VSAN performance with VSAN Observer
8. Support Success Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
8. Support Success
Introduction
Formulating a problem description
Formulating a problem summary
Collecting logging information
Collecting other diagnostic information
9. VSAN 6.0 Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
9. VSAN 6.0
Introduction
Tagging disks as SSDs in vSphere 6.0
VSAN 6.0 fault domains
Upgrading to the VSAN 6.0 on-disk format
A. Chapter-specific Expansions Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 1 – VSAN Capacity Planning
Chapter 2 – HA requirements for VSAN enablement
Chapter 3A – VSAN-specific storage-policy options
Chapter 3B – VSAN Default Storage Policy
Chapter 6 – vCenter inventory layout in RVC
B. Additional VSAN Information Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
VSAN network considerations
VSAN object distribution
vCenter object distribution view and VM snapshots
Understanding VSAN striping
Per object quorum in VSAN
VSAN synchronous I/O flow
VSAN object resynchronization
VSAN cluster expansion
VSAN rebuild logic and thresholds
RVC scripting and redirects
Third-party utilities
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Packt eBook and Licensing When you buy an eBook from Packt Publishing, completing your purchase means you accept the terms of our licence agreement. Please read the full text of the agreement. In it we have tried to balance the need for the ebook to be usable for you the reader with our needs to protect the rights of us as Publishers and of our authors. In summary, the agreement says:

  • You may make copies of your eBook for your own use onto any machine
  • You may not pass copies of the eBook on to anyone else
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If you want to purchase a video course, eBook or Bundle (Print+eBook) please follow below steps:

  1. Register on our website using your email address and the password.
  2. Search for the title by name or ISBN using the search option.
  3. Select the title you want to purchase.
  4. Choose the format you wish to purchase the title in; if you order the Print Book, you get a free eBook copy of the same title. 
  5. Proceed with the checkout process (payment to be made using Credit Card, Debit Cart, or PayPal)
Where can I access support around an eBook? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
  • If you experience a problem with using or installing Adobe Reader, the contact Adobe directly.
  • To view the errata for the book, see www.packtpub.com/support and view the pages for the title you have.
  • To view your account details or to download a new copy of the book go to www.packtpub.com/account
  • To contact us directly if a problem is not resolved, use www.packtpub.com/contact-us
What eBook formats do Packt support? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon

Our eBooks are currently available in a variety of formats such as PDF and ePubs. In the future, this may well change with trends and development in technology, but please note that our PDFs are not Adobe eBook Reader format, which has greater restrictions on security.

You will need to use Adobe Reader v9 or later in order to read Packt's PDF eBooks.

What are the benefits of eBooks? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
  • You can get the information you need immediately
  • You can easily take them with you on a laptop
  • You can download them an unlimited number of times
  • You can print them out
  • They are copy-paste enabled
  • They are searchable
  • There is no password protection
  • They are lower price than print
  • They save resources and space
What is an eBook? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon

Packt eBooks are a complete electronic version of the print edition, available in PDF and ePub formats. Every piece of content down to the page numbering is the same. Because we save the costs of printing and shipping the book to you, we are able to offer eBooks at a lower cost than print editions.

When you have purchased an eBook, simply login to your account and click on the link in Your Download Area. We recommend you saving the file to your hard drive before opening it.

For optimal viewing of our eBooks, we recommend you download and install the free Adobe Reader version 9.