Stretched cluster - VM Storage policy for VM Home / Swap

[anandgopinath]

Dear Community 

Is it ok to change  the VM Storage policy for VM Home / Swap  ( which by default is the VSAN Default storage policy  ) to to the Custom storage policy assigned to the respecitve VM  to make life simple  ? 

Any issues foreseen with this  ? 

[TheBobkin · Accepted solution]

@anandgopinath Yes it is fine, assuming the policy you are changing it to can be compliant with the cluster (e.g. a RAIF6,FTT=2 policy requires, All-Flash + Advanced or higher vSAN license + minimum 6-nodes with storage) and has adequate redundancy (e.g. don't change it to FTT=0).

This also shouldn't incur much resync as these objects are typically not consuming much actual space.

[anandgopinath]

@TheBobkin   :  Thanks for the quick response as always .

Just one last query ,  does this hold good if we reduce the redundancy of the vm home / swap objects as well ? 

ie   my scenario is that for a  "Pinned" VM to a local site storage  ,  is it ok , if i  apply the same vsan storage policy  ( Site disaster tolerance :  preferred site    ) to the vm home / swap  ?