You can configure reserved capacity for a vSAN cluster to reserve capacity for internal operations or to reserve capacity for data repair following a single host failure.

Prerequisites

Ensure that you have the following required privileges: Host.Inventory.EditCluster and Host.Config.Storage.

Verify that the vSAN cluster:
  • Is not configured as a stretched cluster or ROBO cluster.
  • Has no fault domains and nested fault domains created.
  • Has a minimum of four hosts.

Procedure

  1. Navigate to the vSAN cluster.
  2. Click the Configure tab.
  3. Under vSAN, select Services.
  4. Click to edit the Reservations and Alerts.
  5. Click to enable or disable the operations reserve. On enabling the operations reserve, vSAN ensures that the cluster has enough space to complete the internal operations.
  6. Click to enable or disable the host rebuild reserve. On enabling the host rebuild reserve, vSAN provides the reservation of space to repair data back to compliance following a single host failure. You can enable the host rebuild reserve only after you enable the operations reserve. After enabling, if you disable the operations reserve, the host rebuild reserve gets automatically disabled.
  7. Select Customize alerts. You can set a customized threshold to receive warning and error alerts. The threshold percentage is calculated based on the available capacity, which is the difference between the total capacity and the reserved capacity. If you do not set a customized value, vSAN uses the default thresholds to generate alerts.
  8. Click Apply.