There are lot of articles introduce vSAN feature and steps by steps guide. I referred William Lam’s article & Duncan’s article to configure vSAN on my lab, I was true I exactly followed his steps to configure the vSAN, but I can not saw anything under disk field under Disk Management.
Please note: Following steps does not work for ESXi 6.0 RC on VMware Workstation 10. You have to set scsix:y.virtualssd = 0 in vmx file to mark the disk as non-SSD. Please refer to William’s article for detail.
After looked into it deeper, I found something interesting:
esxcli storage core device list
I got that output:
mpx.vmhba1:C0:T1:L0
Display Name: Local VMware, Disk (mpx.vmhba1:C0:T1:L0)
Has Settable Display Name: false
Size: 5120
Device Type: Direct-Access
Multipath Plugin: NMP
Devfs Path: /vmfs/devices/disks/mpx.vmhba1:C0:T1:L0
Vendor: VMware,
Model: VMware Virtual S
Revision: 1.0
SCSI Level: 2
Is Pseudo: false
Status: on
Is RDM Capable: false
Is Local: true
Is Removable: false
Is SSD: true
Is Offline: false
Is Perennially Reserved: false
Queue Full Sample Size: 0
Queue Full Threshold: 0
Thin Provisioning Status: unknown
Attached Filters:
VAAI Status: unsupported
Other UIDs: vml.0000000000766d686261313a313a30
Is Local SAS Device: false
Is Boot USB Device: false
No of outstanding IOs with competing worlds: 32
Initially, I thought that disk marked as SSD since I ran command to enable SSD. Actually it’s not like that, it shows SSD since my hard disk is SSD!!!! I don’t have to run the command introduced in the articles to turn SSD on, it’s nature SSD. lol
What I need to do is actually totally oppositely. That’s the steps I used to enable vSAN:
1. Create two disks.
2. Login ESXi hosts by SSH.
3. Run following command, find out the two disks you want to use for vSAN. Record runtime name.
esxcli storage core device list
4. Run following command to disable SSD for one disk.
esxcli storage nmp satp rule add –satp VMW_SATP_LOCAL –device vmhba1:C0:T2:L0 –option “disable_ssd”
5. Follow up the articles above to enable vSAN ports, create clusters, enable vSAN on cluster and join ESXi hosts to clusters.