Local VSAN Services, please help define local

[pmcgrail]

Local VSAN Services, please help define local

Remote provisioning workflows for File Services, iSCSI, or CNS based block volume workloads (they can exist locally, but not be served remotely)

Does local refer to the Virtual Center Instance, Data Center Instance, or cluster Instance?

Can a vSAN cluster support multiple workload cluster with File, iSCSI, and Block services for provisioning

Example:
Large VSAN Cluster for storage supporting multiple workload clusters hosting VMs stored on the vSAN cluster.

Thanks in advance

[TheBobkin]

@pmcgrail Local means local to that vSphere cluster e.g. each node in the cluster would have physical disks used to form Disk-Groups and the combined storage of these is accessible to the cluster as the vsanDatastore which is accessible only to this cluster as 'local' storage.

But yes, modern iterations of vSAN have configurable:

- iSCSI targets that can be presented to physical servers (though not supported to present them to ESXi or other hypervisors):

https://core.vmware.com/resource/vsan-iscsi-target-usage-guide

- File shares that can be accessed by a multitude of workloads:

https://core.vmware.com/resource/vsan-file-services-tech-note

- And while not quite 'Block' storage as you asked, HCI Mesh allows access to the vsanDatastore from remote clusters:

https://core.vmware.com/resource/vmware-vsan-hci-mesh-tech-note#section1