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  • 1.  New Cluster, what first

    Posted 3 days ago

    Committed 3 more years for a small 10 host cluster with latest vvf 9.

    We have been running vsphere 8 with 50 hosts on a basic basis, no vsan etc.

    If we wanna start over now,

    do i just :

    deploy the new 9.0 vcsa and add my hosts later?

    Deploy the new 9.0 vcsa and operations appliance for the license (i read that here somewhere)

    Deploy the SDDC Manager and then my vcsa + rest

    What would be the steps ?

    Do i need vsan for the basic vcsa+hosts even if all my stuff is on netapp ?



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  • 2.  RE: New Cluster, what first

    Posted 2 days ago

    @Vicky Bryant,

    Moving to VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) 9 for your 10-host cluster on NetApp storage means a fresh start. You don't need vSAN for primary storage, as your NetApp will handle that. The main steps are: clean install ESXi 9.0 on all hosts, then deploy the new vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) 9.0, apply your VVF 9 license to it, and finally, add your ESXi hosts and configure them to connect to your NetApp storage. However, since you get vSAN license as part of VVF, you may want to utilise this as your default storage.

    You won't need SDDC Manager; that's for larger VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) deployments alone.

    Hope this answers your question, let me know otherwise.



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