Enabling vSAN on vCenter 7 [newbie question]

[Lucas_Rey]

Hello community,

here there is a newbie, so be patient

I'm trying to enable vSAN on vCenter 7 but I'm failing even reading tutorial or user manual, simply because I can't find any vSAN menu in configuration:

I used the OVA VM image, to install a clean vCenter.

Now, if I deploy vCenter from VCSA to ESXi node, I can install/configure vSAN and after that I have the related menu. I got QuickStart and vSAN menu and submenu.

My question is, what I miss when I use ova image? Why I can't see the vSAN menu? I compared the configuration between them, and I can't find any differences. Is there any guide I can follow?

Thank you

Lucas

[scott28tt]

Refer to chapter 2 of this for the complete stages when deploying vCenter Server via OVA: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/vsphere-vcenter-server-70-installation-guide.pdf

[Lucas_Rey]

Thank you for reply, I read all the chapter 2 section but I can't find anything interesting.

Deploy the ova is not so hard and it doesn't ask for much information. I believe I miss something on host (ESXi) side, or simply I miss some basic information needed to vSAN service.

Now, I deploy again the ova (in VMWare Worksattion), and I got the same behaviour, no vSAN option (I didn't add any ESXi host for now), I'm sure I'm missing something, but I don't know what

[a_p_]

The vCSA's installation procedure most likely passes OVF settings to the appliance, which are not passed to it when deploying the OVA directly.

If you want to run the vCSA on VMware Workstation, you may try to deploy it to an ESXi host using the installation procedure, and then download/convert it to a VMware Workstation VM.

André

[Lucas_Rey]

If you want to run the vCSA on VMware Workstation, you may try to deploy it to an ESXi host using the installation procedure, and then download/convert it to a VMware Workstation VM.

Thank you, that's a good tip. I'll try to do apply that.