Good Afternoon!
I have recently purchased a VMUG license as I work in the IT field and have dealt with VMware a lot in my previous positions but my current job doesn't have VMware and I want to get my fix so I am building a home lab. Because it's a home lab I obviously will not have more than a single site but I would like to set up vSAN to prevent having to buy additional hardware and I have never had the chance to use vSAN. I am trying to figure out what would be the best in my situation a 2 or 3-node setup.
Ideally, I would like to do a 3 Node setup and place a single 2-port 40GB or 100GB card in each node and have each node connected to each other and have all vSAN and vMotion traffic go over there. In theory, as long as they all shared the same IP space and they all connected to each other it should work without issue. Are there any limitations to this? Doing a 3-node system would prevent me from having to have a separate physical witness correct?
If that will not work, can I do the same networking connection (Direct connection) in a 2-node setup if I have a physical witness able to talk to them via the normal connection ports?
