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  • 1.  vSAN Quickstart Configure Cluster

    Posted Aug 11, 2020 08:39 PM

    What are the pros and cons of using the vSAN Cluster > Quickstart > Configure Cluster Wizard to configure the vSAN networking?  Any good reason to use this vs. just doing it manually?  I am using vSphere 7.  Thanks



  • 2.  RE: vSAN Quickstart Configure Cluster
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    Posted Aug 11, 2020 08:58 PM

    Hello b1izzard​,

    This is generally used to ease the amount of clicking (and for consistency) when deploying/expanding large clusters, or deploying a large number of clusters (e.g. 10-100) of a homogeneous, static and green-field nature - e.g. ones that don't have existing configurations (including networking for iSCSI/FC storage and/or FT-logging) and are not intended to have their networks changed from what is decided at the start.

    However this is at the expense of potentially annoying alerts/warnings if manual changes to the networking are made later, as then the hosts would not be compliant with the Quickstart configuration, my understanding is that editing Quickstart configurations and/or forcing compliance after the fact (and hosts have been deployed with it) is still not an option in 7.0 GA (but I will validate this as it has been a while since I checked for updates to this feature).

    Not to speak badly of Quickstart (but admittedly it clearly does need more fleshing out and flexibility), if it was just a single cluster of 3-10 nodes, I myself would likely just manually configure it (and/or use scripts to configure and validate it if feeling lazy/scripty).

    Bob



  • 3.  RE: vSAN Quickstart Configure Cluster

    Posted Aug 12, 2020 06:24 AM

    Makes sense.  Thank you