I created this quick demo last week, and I figured I would share it here. It shows vSAN 7.0 U1 File Services with SMB and NFS support. I wrote about vSAN File Services and what is new in this post here, make sure to read that as well, and of course, it also details all the other introduced changes for vSAN 7.0 U1.
Great Demo. I understand that a Virtual Machine is being deployed in the background from an OVA. Will that Virtual Machine and/or its running containers be visiable in the inventory?
Yes, the VMs show up in the inventory under a resource pool when you have DRS enabled, or directly in the root of the cluster when you don’t have DRS enabled.
OK, Thanks.
Do I have full control over the VM to be able to adjust compute resources allocated to this VM and more over will I be able to modify the Virtual Disks to increase storage-capacity for my vSAN-File-Services appliance, or is it all just being allocated on demand up to the limit of the hard quotas I have specified?
I also wonder if there are some placement rules for the storage to be provisioned.
Would I be able to control this with Storage Policy Based Management?
I guess that also depends on the kind of disks the vSAN-Datastore was build uppn, right?
Most of your questions are answered here: http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2020/04/15/vsan-file-services-considerations/
Anyway:
– VMs are being managed by vSAN and ESX Agent Manager
– You are not allowed to change compute resources
– You are not allowed to change a disk configuration, and I don’t know why you would want this in the first place
– The FS VM has a specific policy attached to it, you are not allowed to change this.
In other words, do not touch these VMs.
Thanks for clarifying this for me Duncan.
I guess I will have to carefully read your blog post “vSAN File Services considerations” to fully grasp the concept behind it.
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Hi Duncan, great post!
WE have many customers to export shares using both protocols, do you know if this feature is/will be in roadmap? in the other hand, another interisting feature is to asign quotas based in users over a global share.
Maybe this question is asked in your post but, how can i do a backup of the data from SMB share?
Thanks!
As you can imagine, I can’t publicly comment on the roadmap. I will provide your requests back to engineering though.
For backup you could use a solution like Veeam: https://www.veeam.com/blog/veeam-backup-vsan-file-services.html
Hi , Which are backup software support vSAN file serivce datab backup ?
I have not seen an official list, but Veeam has a solution which supports vSAN FS.
You will probably also need to upgrade vSAN File services as well!
Great post
Could you please share some examples and case studies of current customers using file services with performance size and scale data.
I don’t have that data. Also keep in mind, U1 was released 2 weeks ago, so those types of things tend to take a while.
Hi Duncan,
Very great post, congrats!
The “Directory Service” not available to me. What is the “possibilite issue” in this case?
Thanks,
Danilo.