You can select a group of cache and capacity devices, and Virtual SAN organizes them into default disk groups.
Procedure
- Navigate to the Virtual SAN cluster in the vSphere Web Client.
- Click the Configure tab.
- Under vSAN, click Disk Management.
- Click the Claim Disks icon ().
- Select devices to add to the disk group.
- Each host that contributes storage to a hybrid disk group must contribute one flash cache device and one or more capacity devices. You can add only one flash cache device per disk group.
- Select a flash device to be used as cache and click the Claim for cache tier icon ().
- Select an HDD device to be used as capacity and click the Claim for capacity tier icon ().
- Click OK.
- For all-flash disk groups, select flash devices for both capacity and cache.
- Select a flash device to be used as cache and click the Claim for cache tier icon ().
- Select a flash device to be used for capacity and click the Claim for capacity tier icon ().
- Click OK.
To verify the role of each device added to the all-flash disk group, navigate to the Disk Role column at the bottom of the Disk Management page. The column shows the list of devices and their purpose in a disk group.Virtual SAN claims the devices that you selected and organizes them into default disk groups that support the Virtual SAN datastore. - Each host that contributes storage to a hybrid disk group must contribute one flash cache device and one or more capacity devices. You can add only one flash cache device per disk group.