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    <title>topic Re: Share VMDK between 2 VMs running on different AZ (part of Stretched Cluster) in Cloud Activation, Architecture &amp; Billing Discussions</title>
    <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Cloud-Activation-Architecture/Share-VMDK-between-2-VMs-running-on-different-AZ-part-of/m-p/2870077#M156</link>
    <description>&lt;P&gt;Hi&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://communities.vmware.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/584689"&gt;@nareshsharma&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Nice to meet you, i am VMware Staff Customer Success Architect for Muti-Cloud solutions and i will help you with the&amp;nbsp;&lt;SPAN&gt;WSFC&lt;/SPAN&gt; topic.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;The answer is yes, it is supported.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;There is a nice blog post with the title "&lt;STRONG&gt;Deploying a Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC) in the Supported Configuration on VMware Cloud on AWS and vSAN&lt;/STRONG&gt;" and will help you to achieve the right configuration.&amp;nbsp;&lt;SPAN&gt;A stretched cluster SDDC uses vSAN synchronous replication for VMDKs, including shared VMDKs using cross-AZ network connection, so you need to evaluate a possible performance impact on applications deployed o top of a WSFC.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;This post will be very soon updated (this week, hopefully today/tomorrow) to reflect this configuration is also supported on VMware Cloud on AWS, link:&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;A href="https://blogs.vmware.com/apps/2021/01/wsfc-validation-vmware-vmc.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;https://blogs.vmware.com/apps/2021/01/wsfc-validation-vmware-vmc.html&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Also. we generally refer to the on-premises documentation that you can find in this post "WSFC with Native Shared Disks on vSAN 6.7U3 Stretched Clusters",&amp;nbsp; link:&lt;A class="c-link" tabindex="-1" href="https://blogs.vmware.com/virtualblocks/2019/10/09/wsfc-stretched-clusters/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://blogs.vmware.com/virtualblocks/2019/10/09/wsfc-stretched-clusters/" data-sk="tooltip_parent" data-remove-tab-index="true"&gt;https://blogs.vmware.com/virtualblocks/2019/10/09/wsfc-stretched-clusters/&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Last but not least, are you planing to migrate&amp;nbsp;&lt;SPAN&gt;WSFC workloads to the cloud or deploy them from the scratch?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Hope this help!&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Regards,&lt;/P&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2021 16:17:20 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>Pablo_Cruces_</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2021-10-04T16:17:20Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Share VMDK between 2 VMs running on different AZ (part of Stretched Cluster)</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Cloud-Activation-Architecture/Share-VMDK-between-2-VMs-running-on-different-AZ-part-of/m-p/2869965#M155</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Hello,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;This is regarding Microsoft Failover Cluster on VMs running on VMC on AWS. I see that it is possible to share VMDK between 2 VMs running in same local VMware Cluster on VMC on AWS. However, I haven't see any link which shows if we can share virtual disks between 2 VMs running on VMC Stretched Cluster (In 2 different Availability Zones). For example, if I have Stretched Cluster deployed across two Availability zones (pls see following link) and one of the VM is running on AZ-1 and second VM is running on AZ-2, and I want to provision Microsoft Failover Cluster between these 2 VMs with shared VMDK.&amp;nbsp;Could someone help if this is possible and supported by VMware on VMC on AWS?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Stretched Cluster on VMC:&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="https://vmc.techzone.vmware.com/vmc-arch/docs/compute/vmc-aws-stretched-cluster#section1'" target="_blank"&gt;https://vmc.techzone.vmware.com/vmc-arch/docs/compute/vmc-aws-stretched-cluster#section1'&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Thanks&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;NS&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 03 Oct 2021 22:49:42 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Cloud-Activation-Architecture/Share-VMDK-between-2-VMs-running-on-different-AZ-part-of/m-p/2869965#M155</guid>
      <dc:creator>nareshsharma</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2021-10-03T22:49:42Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Share VMDK between 2 VMs running on different AZ (part of Stretched Cluster)</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Cloud-Activation-Architecture/Share-VMDK-between-2-VMs-running-on-different-AZ-part-of/m-p/2870077#M156</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Hi&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://communities.vmware.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/584689"&gt;@nareshsharma&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Nice to meet you, i am VMware Staff Customer Success Architect for Muti-Cloud solutions and i will help you with the&amp;nbsp;&lt;SPAN&gt;WSFC&lt;/SPAN&gt; topic.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;The answer is yes, it is supported.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;There is a nice blog post with the title "&lt;STRONG&gt;Deploying a Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC) in the Supported Configuration on VMware Cloud on AWS and vSAN&lt;/STRONG&gt;" and will help you to achieve the right configuration.&amp;nbsp;&lt;SPAN&gt;A stretched cluster SDDC uses vSAN synchronous replication for VMDKs, including shared VMDKs using cross-AZ network connection, so you need to evaluate a possible performance impact on applications deployed o top of a WSFC.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;This post will be very soon updated (this week, hopefully today/tomorrow) to reflect this configuration is also supported on VMware Cloud on AWS, link:&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;A href="https://blogs.vmware.com/apps/2021/01/wsfc-validation-vmware-vmc.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;https://blogs.vmware.com/apps/2021/01/wsfc-validation-vmware-vmc.html&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Also. we generally refer to the on-premises documentation that you can find in this post "WSFC with Native Shared Disks on vSAN 6.7U3 Stretched Clusters",&amp;nbsp; link:&lt;A class="c-link" tabindex="-1" href="https://blogs.vmware.com/virtualblocks/2019/10/09/wsfc-stretched-clusters/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://blogs.vmware.com/virtualblocks/2019/10/09/wsfc-stretched-clusters/" data-sk="tooltip_parent" data-remove-tab-index="true"&gt;https://blogs.vmware.com/virtualblocks/2019/10/09/wsfc-stretched-clusters/&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Last but not least, are you planing to migrate&amp;nbsp;&lt;SPAN&gt;WSFC workloads to the cloud or deploy them from the scratch?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Hope this help!&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Regards,&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2021 16:17:20 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Cloud-Activation-Architecture/Share-VMDK-between-2-VMs-running-on-different-AZ-part-of/m-p/2870077#M156</guid>
      <dc:creator>Pablo_Cruces_</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2021-10-04T16:17:20Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Share VMDK between 2 VMs running on different AZ (part of Stretched Cluster)</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Cloud-Activation-Architecture/Share-VMDK-between-2-VMs-running-on-different-AZ-part-of/m-p/2870648#M157</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Thanks Pablo for the details and confirmation on cross-site shared VMDK. There will be both cases (migration and new build).&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Similar to Windows Failover Cluster, just also wanted to check if Red Hat “High Availability Cluster” is also supported with shared VMDKs on Stretched Cluster across 2 AZs in VMC on AWS?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Thanks&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2021 03:37:33 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Cloud-Activation-Architecture/Share-VMDK-between-2-VMs-running-on-different-AZ-part-of/m-p/2870648#M157</guid>
      <dc:creator>nareshsharma</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2021-10-07T03:37:33Z</dc:date>
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