TheBobkin
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Hello xinwei123​,

Apologies for the confusion - misread your question.

As Mike said above, a server is vSAN-certified if it is a Ready-Node or it is built using certified components: controller(s), cache-tier SSD/NVMe and capacity-tier HDD/SSD/NVMe must be a) on the vSAN HCL b) using drivers+firmware specified as supported for that device and vSAN build version and c) being used in a manner for which they have been certified (e.g. a lot of lower-grade SSDs are NOT certified for cache-tier but are certified to be used for capacity-tier).

All other server components must be on the general VMware HCL for the version of ESXi in use (e.g. ESXi 6.0 for vSAN 6-6.2)

One thing to note though is that aside from physical hardware being 'certified' there are a number of considerations that may affect if your vSAN cluster is 'supported' e.g. it is possible to use only certified hardware/driver+firmware and still have an unsupported/unsupportable configuration - some obvious ones to avoid would be multihoming network traffic types, logging to vsanDatastore etc.; I would advise reading the relevant documentation before setting up a cluster:

https://storagehub.vmware.com/t/vmware-vsan/

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSAN/index.html

Bob

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