About Virtual SAN Clusters
A virtual storage area network (Virtual SAN) cluster is a collection of virtualized local physical storage resources. A Virtual SAN cluster provides isolation among devices that are physically connected to the same fabric by abstracting them into storage pools.
Cisco UCS Director allows you to create a Virtual SAN storage profile to define the storage requirements for the files and disks of a virtual machine by specifying a set of required storage capabilities.
In Cisco UCS Director you can create Virtual SAN qualification policies. A Virtual SAN qualification policy allows you to filter a unique list of servers based on defined requirements that include server model, storage controller model, and a minimum number of solid state drives and hard disk drives. After creating a Virtual SAN qualification policy, you can use the policy to qualify Virtual SAN-capable servers based on the defined requirements.
Cisco UCS Director supports the following Virtual SAN features:
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Setup of Virtual SAN clusters for manually configured EXi nodes
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Inventory of existing Virtual SAN clusters
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Management of Virtual SAN clusters under the Cisco UCS Director tabs
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Creation of Virtual SAN storage profiles
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Mechanism to select virtual machine storage profiles
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Ability to select datastores matching storage profiles
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Virtual machine provisioning with Virtual SAN capable datastores