Tag: vSAN
Manage vSAN using Powercli
Powercli is a command line tool which based on Windows PowerShell. We can use it for automate our tasks. This article will show some of the valuable comnmads we can use to manage our vSAN infrastructure.
1. First will check what are the available command in powercli relate to the vSAN
Syntax
Get-command *vsan*
2. We can check the health of vSAN cluster
Syntax
Get-Cluster|testVsanClusterHeath|fl
3. We can get the vSAN cluster configuration using below command
Get-VsanClusterConfiguraiton|fl
4. Using Get-VsanDiskGropu command we can get disk group details
How to configure iSCSI on vSAN
iSCCI is one of the best option where we can use our vSAN datastore from outside. We an configure our vSAN enabled ESXi hosts as iSCSI target.This help us to configure guest level clustering also.
Login to vCenter
Select the cluster
Select Configure
Click on edit button which in line with vSAN iSCSI Target Server option under vSAN services configuration
Select vmk0 adapter from Default iSCSI net(Here I have selected my default management network)
I’m using default port(3260)
I’m not using authentication for this lab setup.
Also I have selected default vSAN policy