Captain vSAN and the Case of the Cluster License Mystery
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Excitement was in the air for the technology team of Beast Mode, Inc. After months of planning, some shiny new vSAN ReadyNodes finally arrived at the datacenter. The implementation team gathered to rack and cable the new cluster and all other necessary equipment. Even though ESXi was installed on the hosts with basic network settings configured, there was no datastore on which to install vCenter. They had yet to configure the vSAN cluster.A bit of worry set in, but John, the team lead, remembered something. As part of the vCenter Server Appliance installer in vSphere 6.5d and later (vSAN 6.6 and later), they could leverage Easy Install to create a vSAN datastore on some of the hosts and use it to deploy vCenter. With vCenter online and hosts updated to the latest patch of ESXi 6.5, they configured the rest of the hosts in the vSAN cluster with all networking needed for vSAN traffic, management, and vMotion. Now that the cluster was fully functional, the team was ready to deploy some virtual machines…or so they thought.
John also reminded the team to apply the VMware licenses before going any further. The cluster in question contained 4 hosts, each with a single physical processor, fully licensed for vSphere Enterprise Plus and vSAN Standard. Each host would be managed by vCenter Standard. The team knew how to apply the vSphere licenses as well as the vCenter license. But the mystery began when they tried to apply their licenses to use vSAN.
You can read the rest of the story here - http://blog.thenetworknerd.com/2017/12/11/captain-vsan-and-the-case-of-the-cluster-license-mystery/
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One hell of a teaser...
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@dustinb3403 said in Captain vSAN and the Case of the Cluster License Mystery:
One hell of a teaser...
Maybe next time I should do one in video form with the movie preview voice over guy.
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@networknerd said in Captain vSAN and the Case of the Cluster License Mystery:
@dustinb3403 said in Captain vSAN and the Case of the Cluster License Mystery:
One hell of a teaser...
Maybe next time I should do one in video form with the movie preview voice over guy.
Or Dustin cannot be a dick and click through to read the full article.
As reposting full content is stupid for both sites.
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@networknerd said in Captain vSAN and the Case of the Cluster License Mystery:
@dustinb3403 said in Captain vSAN and the Case of the Cluster License Mystery:
One hell of a teaser...
Maybe next time I should do one in video form with the movie preview voice over guy.
I'll gladly do that voiceover... I do a strong movie trailer guy, as well as a decent Don Pardo.
