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Virtual SAN® Proof of Concept Checklist

 4 (optionally 5) hosts as per the VMware Compatibility Guide with


vSphere 5.5 Update 1 installed.
 4 hosts must contain local storage. Local storage must comprise of at
least one empty HDD & one empty SSD, and must be supported by
VSAN as per the VMware Compatibility Guide.
 The 4 hosts with storage must have a separate boot device. For hosts
with less than 512 GB of memory, the boot device can be an SD card, a
USB drive, or a dedicated hard drive. For hosts with 512 GB of memory
or greater, the boot device must be a separate magnetic disk or solid-
state drive
 Each host must contain a RAID Controller that is capable of running in
pass-thru mode (aka HBA mode) or RAID0 mode. The RAID
Controller must be supported by VSAN as per the VMware
Compatibility Guide. If using RAID0 mode, each drive needs to be
presented as an individual RAID0 set; consult the vendor guidelines for
how to do this for a specific RAID controller.
 NOTE: If the RAID0 set for an SSD drive is not recognized as an SSD
by vSphere, follow the steps in this KB article:
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2013188
 1 x vCenter Server with vSphere Enterprise Plus licensing (an
evaluation license is used if only vSphere Enterprise is available)
 3 ESXi Hosts added to a Cluster. No services should be enabled on the
cluster initially (no HA, no DRS and no Virtual SAN)
 10Gb network is preferable and is highly recommended for production
environments, but Virtual SAN can & will work with a 1Gb network.
The network also needs to support Layer-2 multicast (e.g. IGMP
Snooping). Virtual SAN does NOT require Layer-3 multicast.
 A vMotion VMkernel port must be configured for each host. If IP
storage is available for virtual machine templates or ISOs, this must also
be configured.
 A virtual machine with an installed Guest OS should be available. If this
is not available, a new virtual machine will have to be created and a
Guest OS installed.

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