You can mount one or more datastores from other vSAN clusters.
Procedure
- Navigate to the local vSAN cluster.
- Click the Configure tab.
- Under vSAN, click Remote Datastores.
- Click Mount Remote Datastore to open the wizard.
- (Optional) Select a remote vCenter as the datastore source.
- Select a datastore.
- (Optional) If the server cluster is a vSAN stretched cluster, configure Site Coupling to choose the optimal data path between the vSAN HCI servers and the clients.
A
vSAN stretched cluster might have an asymmetrical network, where links within each site have higher bandwidth and lower latency than links between sites. A symmetrical network has similar links within each site and across sites.
- On the Network Topology page, select Symmetrical or Asymmetrical. If you select Asymmetrical, the Site Coupling page appears.
- Select a site on the server cluster to couple with the appropriate client site. Select the server site that is physically closer or adjacent to each client site.
- Check the datastore compatibility, and click Finish.
Results
The remote datastore is mounted to the local vSAN cluster.
What to do next
When you provision a VM, you can select the remote datastore as the storage resource. Assign a storage policy that is supported by the remote datastore.