vSAN Cluster and MacOS Host

[BoothsSysadmin]

We have a 4-node vSAN cluster. I have created a Windows VM for our design team. Unfortunately given the age of the iMacs (10.1) and the version of Windows (2016) there appears to be some SMB compatibility issues. I am putting together a range of options and wondered if we could introduce some supported Apple hardware into the cluster, spin-up a macOS VM that uses the vSAN storage?

Is this possible? Valid?

Assuming the Apple hardware is supported, is it wise/possible to have a node in the cluster that isn't contributing to the vSAN storage like the other 4?

Any advice much appreciated.

Thanks

Daniel

[A13xxx]

Licensing nightmare!

We ended up with dedicated MacOS hosts running ESXi just so we could run licensed MacOS VMs on them. No HA, no vMotion just dedicated to avoid the small prints.

[anvanster]

You can have hosts in vSAN cluster that do not contribute to the storage capacity and only act as compute resources.

[A13xxx]

contribute to compute or storage resource and it needs to be an apple host including license.