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mfleurisson
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vSAN Streched Cluster : Full site maintenance planned

Hello,

We have several vsan streched cluster (6.5u2 & 6.7u2) for which we plan a full site maintenance and I would have liked to have your opinion on the modus operandi that we plan to apply :

  • check backups
  • check vsan health
  • confirmed that all VMs were compliant to our storage policy
  • eventually set the clom repair delay to a higher value
  • change the preferred site (fault domain) to the one that will remain UP
  • disable HA & change drs to manual or partially auto
  • vMotion all VMs to remaining site
  • place all hosts on the site that will shutdown in maintenance mode using "ensure accessibility"
  • shutdown hosts

Does that seem right ?

I especially have a doubt about the maintenance mode to use, ensure accessibility or no data migration ?

Thank you

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TheBobkin
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Do you have any data that is FTT=0 or just with local protection (e.g. PFTT=0,SFTT=1)? If you do and these need to remain accessible during the maintenance then I would advise moving these first (change the site in the Storage Policy and reapply it).

Other than that, your plan looks fine - use Ensure Accessibility option, No Action is used more for activities such as physically moving a whole cluster or incoming power outage (and all the data should ideally be cold).

Bob

mfleurisson
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Thanks Bob for your answer.

We do not have any data that is FTT=0 or just with local protection.

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bmrkmr
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we did not disable HA and DRS but instead created a host group "maint-hosts" and vm group "ALL VMs"

then activated a rule so that ALL VMs must not run on maint-hosts.

now let DRS do its job, and then it is much easier (faster) to bring the vsan "main-hosts" into maintenance mode with "ensure accessiblity"

when you make them exit maintenance mode again, do so quickly one after another, so that no re-placement of components would start (you raised the delay timer anyway...)

only disable or delete the "maint-rule" after you are sure there is no more data resync going on

my 0.02$

Regards,

Bernhard

abukowinski
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Hi,

I described several potential options in this post: vSAN Stretched Cluster - full site maintenance

Regards,

A.Bukowinski

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