You can edit the settings of your vSAN cluster to configure data management features and enable services provided by the cluster.
Edit the settings of an existing vSAN cluster if you want to enable deduplication and compression, or to enable encryption. If you enable deduplication and compression, or if you enable encryption, the on-disk format of the cluster is automatically upgraded to the latest version.
Procedure
- Navigate to the vSAN cluster.
- Click the Configure tab.
- Under vSAN, select Services.
- Click the Edit or Enable button for the service you want to configure.
- Configure Storage. Click Mount Remote Datastores to use storage from other vSAN clusters.
- Configure vSAN performance service. For more information, see "Monitoring vSAN Performance" in vSAN Monitoring and Troubleshooting.
- Enable File Service. For more information, see "vSAN File Service" in Administering VMware vSAN .
- Configure vSAN Network options. For more information, see "Configuring vSAN Network" in vSAN Planning and Deployment.
- Configure iSCSI target service. For more information, see "Using the vSAN iSCSI Target Service" in Administering VMware vSAN.
- Configure Data Services, including deduplication and compression, data-at-rest encryption, and data-in-transit encryption.
- Configure vSAN Data Protection. Before you can use vSAN Data Protection, you must deploy the vSAN Snapshot Service. For more information, see "Deploying the Snapshot Service Appliance" in Administering VMware vSAN.
- Configure capacity reservations and alerts. For more information, see "About Reserved Capacity" in vSAN Monitoring and Troubleshooting.
- Configure advanced options:
- Object Repair Timer
- Site Read Locality for vSAN stretched clusters
- Thin Swap provisioning
- Large Cluster Support for up to 64 hosts
- Automatic Rebalance
- Configure vSAN historical health service.
- Modify the settings to match your requirements.
- Click Apply to confirm your selections.
