@ERA_GoBlue, We actaully see this quite often - especially for workload domain ckusters where customers wish to use existing storage investments or have specific requirements. While the VMw...
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@ERA_GoBlue, We actaully see this quite often - especially for workload domain ckusters where customers wish to use existing storage investments or have specific requirements. While the VMware Validated Design for SDDC is built on and validated with vSAN as the primary storage platform, customers can, in fact, use alternative storage as long as that storage is compatible with the vSphere version in the BOM. Below is an excerpt from the 5.0.x documentation: Physical Storage Design: All functional testing and validation of the design is on vSAN. Although VMware Validated Design uses vSAN, in particular for the clusters running management components, you can use any supported storage solution. If selecting a storage solution other than vSAN, you must take into account that all the design, deployment, and Day-2 guidance in VMware Validated Design applies under the context of vSAN and adjust appropriately. Your storage design must match or exceed the capacity and performance capabilities of the vSAN configuration in the design. For multiple availability zones, the vSAN configuration includes vSAN stretched cluster. Additionally, if you look at the Deploy Parameters on the configuration workbook for 5.0.x you see that vSAN is optional:
