vSphere with Tanzu LAB Environment Installation Step-by-Step (Included vCenter, vSAN, NSX, Supervisor Cluster and pfSense)-4

Evren Baycan
3 min readNov 3, 2022

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vSAN Cluster configuration on Nested Infrastructure

We exit Maintenance Mode for all nodes.

We are going to enable the vSAN service with Configure vSAN via the Configure/vSAN/Services tab on the cluster.

We are setting up a Single Site cluster.

We choose None as the space efficiency. I am Deploy Hybrid vSAN Cluster as Nested for LAB environment.

Deduplication and Compression can be enabled for ALL-FLASH and ALL-NVMe vSAN Nodes. Not supported for Hybrid vSAN Node!

We mark the 100GB disks that I have added per node as Marked as Flash.

Then, mark 1000GB disks as Capacity Tier.

If everything is ok, we get a small summary for the vSAN Cluster to be created.

We start the configuration with finish.

You can review the vSAN Cluster status on Cluster/Monitor/vSAN/Skyline Health. If you see a red warning here, there is definitely a problem!

You can review your current capacity status on Cluster/Monitor/vSAN/Capacity.

You can examine the vSAN Cluster disk status on Cluster/Configure/vSAN/Disk Management.

We deployed vSAN Cluster for Nested Infrastructure.

Part 5.

  • NSX Manager installation on Physical Infrastructure
  • NSX Host Preparation on Nested Infrastructure

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