Enabling VMware vSAN File Services

VMware vSAN is a software-defined enterprise storage solution that supports hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) systems. VMware vSAN is fully integrated with VMware vSphere as a distributed layer of software within the ESXi hypervisor.

For more information about VMware vSAN, see VMware vSAN documentation.

If you want to enable backup and restore, you must enable VMware vSAN file service. To configure, VMware vSAN file service, see VMware vSAN file service documentation.

After you enable file service, you must create a file share. To create file share, see Create a File Share documentation.

After the file service is enabled, you can see the following NFS path.

Copy the NFS 4.1 path and get the IP address of the VMware vSAN. You must connect with the system admin to configure the DNS. The NSF path shown in the screenshot will be in the following format:

<Server-IPAddress>:/vsanfs/disaster-recovery

While configuring the Backup and Restore values in the values-user-overrides.yaml file, you must map the NFS values as follows:

• <Server-IPAddress> maps to the nfsServer IP address.
• /vsanfs/disaster-recovery maps to the nfsPath