You can mount one or more datastores from other vSAN clusters.

Procedure

  1. Navigate to the local vSAN cluster.
  2. Click the Configure tab.
  3. Under vSAN, click Remote Datastores.
  4. Click Mount Remote Datastore to open the wizard.
  5. (Optional) Select a remote vCenter as the datastore source.
  6. Select a datastore.
  7. (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.
    1. On the Network Topology page, select Symmetrical or Asymmetrical. If you select Asymmetrical, the Site Coupling page appears.
    2. 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.
  8. 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.