Remote datastore sharing enables vSAN clusters to share their datastores with other clusters. Mounting a remote vSAN datastore is a cluster-wide configuration. When you mount a remote vSAN datastore to a vSAN cluster, it is available to all hosts in the cluster. Use the SDDC Manager UI to remotely mount datastores from other vSAN clusters.
A vSAN cluster can mount a remote vSAN datastore from another vSAN cluster in the same workload domain. Once mounted, the cluster consumes storage resources from the remote datastore. Remote clusters allows you to share storage resources from underutilized clusters or from vSAN Max clusters, which are designed specifically to provide storage resources.
vSAN compute clusters provide compute resources only and require a remote datastore for storage resources.
- Two or more clusters can share the same remote vSAN datastore.
- A cluster can mount more than one remote vSAN datastore, as long as all the datastores are of the same type.
Prerequisites
| Cluster Type | Supported Remote Datastores |
|---|---|
| vSAN OSA | vSAN OSA |
| vSAN ESA | vSAN ESA, vSAN Max |
| vSAN Compute Cluster | vSAN OSA, vSAN ESA, vSAN Max |
Procedure
- In the navigation pane, click .
- In the domain table, click the name of a domain.
- Click the Clusters tab.
- In the clusters table, click the cluster name.
- Click the Actions dropdown to the right of the cluster name and select Mount Remote Datastore.
- Select a remote datastore from the list of available vSAN clusters and click Next.
- Review the details and click Finish.
