Number of datastores

[vishalchand]

Hi All,

We have 1 x SSD per host and 5 x HDD per host with total of 3 host to form a VSAN cluster. From what I understand, we can ONLY create one datastore per cluster. A customer require separate datastore, how can we accommodate two datastore using VSAN.

Thanks

[crosdorff · Accepted solution]

Using Vsan in esx 5.5 or esx 6.0 it's not possible to have more than one (vsan) datastore.

The only solution I can think of is to create a second datastore on nfs/iscsi/fc/local-disks which is not part of vsan.

[RyanH84]

Hi,

Crosdorf is correct, VSAN creates one datastore. To have another you would have to build a new VSAN cluster. You're only option is to present SAN/NAS datastores to the VSAN cluster and have them reside separately.

You could use VM storage policies to ensure that your customer VM's are kept on the SAN/NAS datastores rather than VSAN.

[ramakrishnak]

> A customer require separate datastore, how can we accommodate two datastore using VSAN

can we know what is the main reason/usecase for this ?

Thanks,