Create a Virtual SAN Datastore

You can create Virtual SAN disk groups on standalone hosts and add the hosts to a Virtual SAN enabled cluster to form a Virtual SAN datastore. You can then create a virtual machine on the Virtual SAN datastore and assign a storage policy to the virtual machine and its hard disk.

Prerequisites

■	Verify that you are connected to a vCenter Server system.
■	Verify that you have access to at least three virtual machine hosts.
■	Verify that each of the virtual machine hosts has at least one SSD and one HDD.
■	Verify that the virtual machine hosts are in maintenance mode.

Procedure

$vsanCluster = New-Cluster -Name 'VsanCluster' -Location (Get-Datacenter) -VsanEnabled -VsanDiskClaimMode 'Manual'
New-VMHostNetworkAdapter -VMHost 'Host-A' -PortGroup 'VMkernel' -VirtualSwitch 'vSwitch0' -VsanTrafficEnabled $true
New-VMHostNetworkAdapter -VMHost 'Host-B' -PortGroup 'VMkernel' -VirtualSwitch 'vSwitch0' -VsanTrafficEnabled $true
New-VMHostNetworkAdapter -VMHost 'Host-C' -PortGroup 'VMkernel' -VirtualSwitch 'vSwitch0' -VsanTrafficEnabled $true
New-VsanDiskGroup -DataDiskCanonicalName 'HDD1-CanonicalName' -SsdCanonicalName 'SSD1-CanonicalName' -VMHost 'Host-A'
New-VsanDiskGroup -DataDiskCanonicalName 'HDD1-CanonicalName' -SsdCanonicalName 'SSD1-CanonicalName' -VMHost 'Host-B'
New-VsanDiskGroup -DataDiskCanonicalName 'HDD1-CanonicalName' -SsdCanonicalName 'SSD1-CanonicalName' -VMHost 'Host-C'
Move-VMHost -VMHost 'Host-A' -Destination $vsanCluster
Move-VMHost -VMHost 'Host-B' -Destination $vsanCluster
Move-VMHost -VMHost 'Host-C' -Destination $vsanCluster
Set-VMHost -VMHost 'Host-A','Host-B','Host-C' -State 'Connected'
$vsanDS = Get-Datastore -Name 'vsanDatastore'
$vm = New-VM -Name 'newVM' -DiskMB 1024 -Datastore $vsanDS -VMHost 'Host-A'
$cap = Get-SpbmCapability -Name VSAN*
$rule = New-SpbmRule $cap[1] $true
$ruleset = New-SpbmRuleSet $rule
$policy = New-SpbmStoragePolicy -Name 'vsan policy' -RuleSet $ruleset -Description 'Virtual SAN-based storage policy'
$vmHdd = Get-HardDisk -VM $vm
Set-SpbmEntityConfiguration $vm, $vmHdd -StoragePolicy $policy
Get-SpbmEntityConfiguration $vm, $vmHdd

1	Create a Virtual SAN enabled cluster with manual disk claim mode. $vsanCluster = New-Cluster -Name 'VsanCluster' -Location (Get-Datacenter) -VsanEnabled -VsanDiskClaimMode 'Manual'
2	Configure a Virtual SAN VMkernel port on each of the three hosts. New-VMHostNetworkAdapter -VMHost 'Host-A' -PortGroup 'VMkernel' -VirtualSwitch 'vSwitch0' -VsanTrafficEnabled $true New-VMHostNetworkAdapter -VMHost 'Host-B' -PortGroup 'VMkernel' -VirtualSwitch 'vSwitch0' -VsanTrafficEnabled $true New-VMHostNetworkAdapter -VMHost 'Host-C' -PortGroup 'VMkernel' -VirtualSwitch 'vSwitch0' -VsanTrafficEnabled $true
3	Create a Virtual SAN disk group on each of the three hosts. New-VsanDiskGroup -DataDiskCanonicalName 'HDD1-CanonicalName' -SsdCanonicalName 'SSD1-CanonicalName' -VMHost 'Host-A' New-VsanDiskGroup -DataDiskCanonicalName 'HDD1-CanonicalName' -SsdCanonicalName 'SSD1-CanonicalName' -VMHost 'Host-B' New-VsanDiskGroup -DataDiskCanonicalName 'HDD1-CanonicalName' -SsdCanonicalName 'SSD1-CanonicalName' -VMHost 'Host-C'
4	Add each of the three hosts to the Virtual SAN cluster to create a Virtual SAN datastore. Move-VMHost -VMHost 'Host-A' -Destination $vsanCluster Move-VMHost -VMHost 'Host-B' -Destination $vsanCluster Move-VMHost -VMHost 'Host-C' -Destination $vsanCluster
5	Revert the virtual machine hosts to Connected state. Set-VMHost -VMHost 'Host-A','Host-B','Host-C' -State 'Connected'
6	Create a virtual machine on the Virtual SAN datastore. $vsanDS = Get-Datastore -Name 'vsanDatastore' $vm = New-VM -Name 'newVM' -DiskMB 1024 -Datastore $vsanDS -VMHost 'Host-A'
7	Create a storage policy by using any of the Virtual SAN capabilities. $cap = Get-SpbmCapability -Name VSAN* $rule = New-SpbmRule $cap[1] $true $ruleset = New-SpbmRuleSet $rule $policy = New-SpbmStoragePolicy -Name 'vsan policy' -RuleSet $ruleset -Description 'Virtual SAN-based storage policy'
8	Assign the storage policy to the virtual machine and its hard disk. $vmHdd = Get-HardDisk -VM $vm Set-SpbmEntityConfiguration $vm, $vmHdd -StoragePolicy $policy
9	Check the compliance of the virtual machine and its hard disk with the storage policy. Get-SpbmEntityConfiguration $vm, $vmHdd The status should be `Compliant`.