Creating VSAN cluster

[vSohill]

Hi,

Now I have 6 ESXI nodes, Each ESXI has 1 HDD and 1 SSD. ESXI OS installed on USB Flash and work fine. My question how can I install vCenter if I have only 1 hdd and 1 ssd those disks will be claimed by VSAN.

Thank you

[GreatWhiteTec · Accepted solution]

You have a few options here:

1. Bootstrap vCenter into a vSAN node https://vdc-download.vmware.com/vmwb-repository/dcr-public/b5a7ed3b-388b-4baf-9345-f3cc675efa26/8f9e...
2. Install vCenter on 1 node (locally) (Not on vSAN cluster), then enable vSAN and migrate vCenter to vSAN datastore, then clean partitions on previous node and add to vSAN cluster
3. Attach external storage to a host and install vCenter there, then migrate to vSAN datastore once created
4. There are more option like cloud hosted vCenter, etc...

Bootstrapping is probably the easiest IMO.

[vSohill]

Thank you