Different HW in the same cluster

[Luca82]

Hi everyone... I have a quick question for you: is there somewhere an HCL to check the intercompatibility among different hardware? I have a customer with 2 hosts in HCL and he wants to add other 2 hosts (also in HCL) but they are different than the first ones. Thank you

[TheBobkin · Accepted solution]

Hello Luca82​,

Sorry but this is not a thing based on the fact that VMware advise using homogeneous nodes in vSAN clusters (and besides the fact that testing the inter-compatibility between EVERY combination of even just ReadyNodes would be a non-starter). While you shouldn't have issues any special issues running in this configuration, do note that the faster storage nodes (if there is a disparity) will likely be dragged back in this regard waiting for the (comparatively) slower ones to keep up.

Bob

[mschubi]

Hello Luca,

the health check is on host basis. If you have differend vendors than health check works well too.

But a good design would be not to mix vendors and configurations 🙂

best regards,

Mike