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vSAN monitoring and management ........................................................................... 25
Running vSAN health checks ............................................................................................................ 25
Procedure ..................................................................................................................................... 26
vSAN Storage Policy Based Management ................................................................ 27
Default storage policy ........................................................................................................................ 29
Defining a new VM storage policy .................................................................................................. 30
Assigning a storage policy to a VM ................................................................................................ 31
Changing a storage policy for a VM ............................................................................................... 31
Renaming VxRail objects within vCenter .................................................................. 33
Renaming a VxRail datacenter .......................................................................................................... 33
Renaming a VM folder ....................................................................................................................... 33
Renaming vSAN datastore ................................................................................................................ 33
Renaming a VxRail vSphere Distributed Switch ................................................................................. 34
Renaming VxRail dvPortGroup .......................................................................................................... 34
Choosing a failure tolerance method (FTM) ............................................................. 35
Mirroring ............................................................................................................................................ 35
Erasure coding .................................................................................................................................. 36
FTM considerations ........................................................................................................................... 38
Configuring IOPS limit for objects (QoS) .................................................................. 39
Configuring IOPS limit for a VM ..................................................................................................... 39
vSAN fault domains .................................................................................................... 41
Configuring fault domains .................................................................................................................. 42
VxRail deduplication and compression .................................................................... 43
Considerations .............................................................................................................................. 44
Enabling deduplication and compression ........................................................................................... 44
Procedure ..................................................................................................................................... 45
Disabling deduplication and compression .......................................................................................... 46
Procedure ..................................................................................................................................... 46
Monitoring deduplication and compression ........................................................................................ 46
vSAN encryption services .......................................................................................... 48
Setting up vSAN encryption on a VxRail cluster ................................................................................. 48
Setting up a domain of trust ........................................................................................................... 49
Enabling encryption for the VxRail cluster ...................................................................................... 51
Connectivity to key management server ............................................................................................ 53
VxRail networking ....................................................................................................... 54
Physical network ............................................................................................................................... 54
VxRail VLANs ................................................................................................................................... 55
Enabling multicast ......................................................................................................................... 56