The Telco Cloud Platform design uses VMware vSAN as the shared storage for workloads. Enable vSAN on the management cluster and create a datastore.

For detailed configuration steps, see the VMware vSphere documentation.

Procedure

  1. Enable vSAN for the management cluster TCP_MGMT_CLUSTER.
  2. Prepare the vSAN disks:

    • vSAN Original Storage Architecture (vSAN OSA): Create the disk group by selecting the cache and capacity drives of hosts ESXi_MGMT_01 through ESXi_MGMT_04.

    • vSAN Express Storage Architecture (vSAN ESA): Claim the flash disks from the hosts ESXi_MGMT_01 through ESXi_MGMT_04.

  3. Add the vSAN disks to the vSAN cluster.
  4. Name the vSAN datastore TCP_MGMT_VSAN_DS.
  5. Verify that the vSAN datastore TCP_MGMT_VSAN_DS is visible to the hosts ESXi_MGMT_01 through ESXi_MGMT_04.
  6. Migrate all the VMs of the host ESXi_MGMT_01 from the NFS or local datastore to the vSAN datastore TCP_MGMT_VSAN_DS.
  7. In the Migrate wizard, under the migration type, select Change both compute resource and storage.

What to do next

After configuring vSAN, verify the following:

  • Verify that all ESXi hosts participated in the vSAN datastore creation and the vSAN datastore consumed hard disks from each ESXi host.

  • The vSAN datastore is visible to all four hosts in the cluster.

  • The Management vCenter resides on the vSAN datastore.

  • vSAN is configured properly.

    Note:

    Run the vSAN Skyline health check in the vCenter UI (vSphere Cluster > Monitor > vSAN > SkylineHealth). If you find any errors during the verification, ensure that the errors are fixed before you proceed with the next steps.