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    <title>topic Re: vSAN licensing in VMware vSAN Discussions</title>
    <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vSAN-Discussions/vSAN-licensing/m-p/474515#M1028</link>
    <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;If your 10 Hosts are already licensed with vSphere ESXi than you need of course additional vSAN (3 editions available) licenses.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;If not... depending on the use case of your Cluster several special Bundle or Addons are available.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;VMware HCI Kit = 1 ESXi + 1 vSAN Lic&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;VMware vSAN Desktop = all inclusive bundle for VDI only&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;VMware vSAN ROBO = max 25vm per Site&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;External JBOD arent a valid configuration for VSAN (i only see some special for HPE Blade with external SAS)&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Reuse of existing HW doesnt work well in most cases (for Lab or Testing maybe).&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Regards,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Joerg&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2018 07:52:42 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>IRIX201110141</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2018-09-12T07:52:42Z</dc:date>
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      <title>vSAN licensing</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vSAN-Discussions/vSAN-licensing/m-p/474509#M1022</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Hi All,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I have 10 ESXi hosts.Each ESXi host has 2 CPU sockets.I'm going to make a new cluster for vSAN along with these 10 ESXi hosts.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;With respect to licensing,i need to purchase a seperate license for vSAN and&amp;nbsp; need to get seperate license for ESXi host ?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Please confirm.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2018 16:51:49 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vSAN-Discussions/vSAN-licensing/m-p/474509#M1022</guid>
      <dc:creator>ManivelR</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-09-11T16:51:49Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: vSAN licensing</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vSAN-Discussions/vSAN-licensing/m-p/474510#M1023</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;You must already have a vSphere license (for ESXi) in hand an in use. You will also need to separately purchase a vSAN license that covers all ESXi hosts which participate in the cluster. There are different options for that license depending on if you run in hybrid or all flash mode.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2018 16:57:32 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vSAN-Discussions/vSAN-licensing/m-p/474510#M1023</guid>
      <dc:creator>daphnissov</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-09-11T16:57:32Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: vSAN licensing</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vSAN-Discussions/vSAN-licensing/m-p/474511#M1024</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Hello &lt;B&gt;ManivelR&lt;/B&gt;​&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Yes, it requires it's own license in addition to ESXi - based on per-CPU, per-VM or per-CCU&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Which features are available in each licensing edition can be found here:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A class="jive-link-external-small" href="https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/products/vsan/vmware-vsan-66-licensing-guide.pdf" rel="nofollow"&gt;https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/products/vsan/vmware-vsan-66-licensing-guide.pdf&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Do not there were changes from the 6.0 licensing if you are not going ESXi 6.5/6.7&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A class="jive-link-external-small" href="https://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/products/vsan/vmware-vsan-62-licensing-guide.pdf" rel="nofollow"&gt;https://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/products/vsan/vmware-vsan-62-licensing-guide.pdf&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Obviously make sure you have (or can acquire) controllers, SSDs and HDDs/SSDs components that are supported for the type of vSAN implementation you are considering as using random/unsupported hardware will likely result in a bad time:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A class="jive-link-external-small" href="https://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php?deviceCategory=vsan" rel="nofollow"&gt;https://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php?deviceCategory=vsan&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Bob&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2018 18:25:13 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vSAN-Discussions/vSAN-licensing/m-p/474511#M1024</guid>
      <dc:creator>TheBobkin</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-09-11T18:25:13Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: vSAN licensing</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vSAN-Discussions/vSAN-licensing/m-p/474512#M1025</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Thank you very much.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2018 18:29:44 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vSAN-Discussions/vSAN-licensing/m-p/474512#M1025</guid>
      <dc:creator>ManivelR</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-09-11T18:29:44Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: vSAN licensing</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vSAN-Discussions/vSAN-licensing/m-p/474513#M1026</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Thanks so much everyone for quick response.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I have few doubts.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;We are going to use hybrid VSAN.My question is...&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;1) I have 5 ESXi servers connected with seperate JBODs.I mean Each ESXi server(connected with seperate JBOD) consists of 15 TB.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;5 ESXi servers======&amp;nbsp; 5 * 15 TB ==== 75 TB&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;2) I have another 5 ESXi servers.Each ESXi servers having 1 TB local drive.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;5 ESXi servers======&amp;nbsp; 5 * 1 TB ==== 5 TB&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Can i club all these 10 ESXi servers to make as a vSAN ?&amp;nbsp; If there is any host failure or any disk failure,it will sustain failure ? or i need to get the same storage capacity from all the 10 ESXi servers to make as a vSAN ??&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I mean 10 ESXi servers===== 10 * 1 TB === 10 TB&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; (or)&amp;nbsp; 10 * 15 TB=== 150 TB.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Another question is that,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;We no need to configure any RAID from the hardware level right ?&amp;nbsp; Please confirm.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2018 18:37:42 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vSAN-Discussions/vSAN-licensing/m-p/474513#M1026</guid>
      <dc:creator>ManivelR</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-09-11T18:37:42Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: vSAN licensing</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vSAN-Discussions/vSAN-licensing/m-p/474514#M1027</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Hello &lt;B&gt;ManivelR&lt;/B&gt;​,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;"Can i club all these 10 ESXi servers to make as a vSAN ? "&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Likely not but this depends on more precisely what you have available and/or what you can add; vSAN requires a) true locally attached storage b) a combination of SSDs/NVMe for cache + HDDs/SSDs for capacity-tier (up to 7 per Disk-Group, 5 Disk-Groups per node) and c) components on the vSAN HCL.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;"If there is any host failure or any disk failure,it will sustain failure ? or i need to get the same storage capacity from all the 10 ESXi servers to make as a vSAN ??"&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;vSAN protects data by placing mirrors of data-Objects on multiple Fault Domains - each node being a Fault Domain if not specified otherwise so for instance if you had a 10 node cluster with FTT=1 applied to the data it can tolerate one node failure and rebuild the data back to FTT=1. You don't necessarily need all nodes to contribute the same amount of storage (or technically some can have none) but this would be fairly imbalanced from a resilience perspective.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;"We no need to configure any RAID from the hardware level right ?&amp;nbsp; Please confirm."&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;No - RAID is applied at the data-Object level (and for some controllers RAID0 individual RAID0 VDs for each device).&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Bob&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2018 19:16:19 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vSAN-Discussions/vSAN-licensing/m-p/474514#M1027</guid>
      <dc:creator>TheBobkin</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-09-11T19:16:19Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: vSAN licensing</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vSAN-Discussions/vSAN-licensing/m-p/474515#M1028</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;If your 10 Hosts are already licensed with vSphere ESXi than you need of course additional vSAN (3 editions available) licenses.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;If not... depending on the use case of your Cluster several special Bundle or Addons are available.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;VMware HCI Kit = 1 ESXi + 1 vSAN Lic&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;VMware vSAN Desktop = all inclusive bundle for VDI only&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;VMware vSAN ROBO = max 25vm per Site&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;External JBOD arent a valid configuration for VSAN (i only see some special for HPE Blade with external SAS)&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Reuse of existing HW doesnt work well in most cases (for Lab or Testing maybe).&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Regards,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Joerg&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2018 07:52:42 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vSAN-Discussions/vSAN-licensing/m-p/474515#M1028</guid>
      <dc:creator>IRIX201110141</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-09-12T07:52:42Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: vSAN licensing</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vSAN-Discussions/vSAN-licensing/m-p/474516#M1029</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Thank you&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2018 05:29:36 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vSAN-Discussions/vSAN-licensing/m-p/474516#M1029</guid>
      <dc:creator>ManivelR</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-09-17T05:29:36Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: vSAN licensing</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vSAN-Discussions/vSAN-licensing/m-p/474517#M1030</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Thank you Bob&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2018 05:30:05 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vSAN-Discussions/vSAN-licensing/m-p/474517#M1030</guid>
      <dc:creator>ManivelR</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-09-17T05:30:05Z</dc:date>
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