Deployment Guide

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Dell EMC Networking - Deploying VMware vSAN with OS10 Enterprise Edition | version 1.0
A cluster represents a collection of compute and memory resources for a group of physical servers. vSAN
aggregates storage devices of the host cluster and creates the storage pool that is shared across all hosts in
the vSAN cluster. The following steps are used to create a cluster:
1. On the web client Home screen, select Hosts and Clusters.
2. In the Navigator pane, right click the datacenter object and select New Cluster.
3. Provide a Name (example: atx01-w01-vSAN) and click OK.
Create cluster
5.1.2.1 Add hosts to the cluster
This section provides steps for adding the hosts to the cluster. The example uses the four hosts that were
prepared in section 5.1.1. All hosts use ESXi management VLAN 2030, and have unique IPv4 addresses for
management.
Add hosts to the cluster:
1. On the web client Home screen, select Hosts and Clusters.
2. In the Navigator pane, right click on the cluster (example: atx01-w01-vSAN) and select Add Host.
3. Specify the IP address of an ESXi host or the host name if DNS is configured on your network, then click
Next.
4. Enter the credentials for the ESXi host and click Next. If a security certificate warning box is displayed,
click Yes to proceed.
5. On the Host summary screen, click Next.
6. Assign a license then click Next.
7. Select a Lockdown mode. This guide uses the default setting, Disabled. Click Next.
8. On the Ready to complete screen, select Finish.
9. Repeat steps 1 – 8 for each of the remaining hosts in the vSAN cluster.