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Disk format change going from 6.x to vSAN 6.6?

Duncan Epping · Apr 20, 2017 ·

Internally I received a comment around the upgrade to 6.6 and the disk format version change. When you upgrade to 6.6 also the version of  disk changes, it goes to version 5. In the past with these on-disk format changes a data move was needed and the whole disk group would be reformat. When going from vSAN 6.2 (vSphere 6.0 U2 that is!) to vSAN 6.6 there is no data move needed. The update is simply a metadata update, and on the average cluster will take less than 20 minutes.

When introducing encryption in to the environment you will need to evac data though as this will be a reformat of the disk. Reason for it being is that the disk will need to be encrypted and so will the data. This doesn’t mean however that if you want to “rekey” your environment a full format and data move is needed, vSAN Encryption has the ability to do a so called “shallow rekey” which means that the Key Encryption Key (KEK) will be replaced (see animated gif below), but not the Data Encryption Key (DEK). It is possible to do a deep rekey, but this will mean a full reformat and data evac of all disk groups. I hope that clears things up.

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Server, Software Defined, Storage, vSAN 6.6, encryption, security, virtual san, VMware, vsan, vSphere

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Duncan Epping is a Chief Technologist in the Office of CTO of the Cloud Platform BU at VMware. He is a VCDX (# 007), the author of the "vSAN Deep Dive", the “vSphere Clustering Technical Deep Dive” series, and the host of the "Unexplored Territory" podcast.

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