Create a Virtual SAN datastore on a cluster with three hosts and deploy as many running VMs (of any size) as possible.
Task Description
Create a Virtual SAN datastore using three hosts, with as much capacity as you can. Then, deploy as many running virtual machines (of any size) as you can onto the Virtual SAN datastore. The VMs must be powered on.
Task Validation (three steps)
Step 1:
Provide a screen capture that displays the following details from your Virtual SAN datastore within the vSphere Web Client.
Total Storage Capacity
Datastore Location
Datastore Type
Datastore # of Hosts
Datastore Virtual Machines
Example :
Step 2:
Provide a screen capture that displays the following details about the virtual machines within your Virtual SAN datastore via the vSphere Web Client
Name
State
Status
Provisioned Space
Used Space
Host CPU
Host Memory
Guest Memory %
VM Storage Polices Compliance
Example:
Step 3:
Provide a .csv or .xls file that contains the following information for ALL powered on virtual machines residing on your vsanDatastore.
Name
State
Status
Provisioned Space
Used Space
Host CPU
Host Memory
Guest Memory %
VM Storage Polices Compliance
Please post your results into the contest thread in our Virtual SAN Beta community (to get access to the community please sign-up on www.vsanbeta.com).
Submissions due by: 1/17/2014
Attention: If you’re in the race to our grand prize (Samsung 65″ 4K TV) – you’ll get 500points on the CloudCred contest for just submitting an entry. (task link)
We’re looking forward to see what you can do with Virtual SAN.
