EE Topic Advisor, Independent Technology Professional

Brian B

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The datastores in vSAN are presented to all hosts in the vSAN Cluster and offer storage.<br />
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The compute (hosts) can run all the VMs, and different VMs using the storage provided by vSAN.
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The datastores in vSAN are presented to all hosts in the vSAN Cluster and offer storage.

The compute (hosts) can run all the VMs, and different VMs using the storage provided by vSAN.

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Great, thanks for the reassurance.
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Just having trouble finding a definitive answer to this:<br />
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In a vSAN 6.7 setup with two hosts and a witness, can you have different VMs running on both hosts at the same time? (Not talking about HA, just manually load balancing, ie. running a DC on each host.)
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Just having trouble finding a definitive answer to this:

In a vSAN 6.7 setup with two hosts and a witness, can you have different VMs running on both hosts at the same time? (Not talking about HA, just manually load balancing, ie. running a DC on each host.)

vSAN: Can VMs run on both hosts?

vsan

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.