HPE VM Essential using hosts hdds as a single storage as like vSAN

[Gowrab]

I have two HPE DL360 gen 11 servers and I have installed HPE VM in them. Now, I want to add the both server in a cluster. But As I don't have an externat storage at this moment. So, I want to combine the remaining local storage as like vSAN.  So, that if somehow one server/host goes down I can still access all the VMs. Can anybody help me on this?

[babusude]

You can configure CEPH ( which is HCI like VMware VSAN )

Refer the requirments here for CEPH - https://hpevm-docs.morpheusdata.com/en/latest/infrastructure/clusters/mvm.html?highlight=ceph#base-cluster-details

Also when creating a cluster select hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) LAYOUT for CEPH 

https://hpevm-docs.morpheusdata.com/en/latest/infrastructure/clusters/mvm.html?highlight=ceph#provisioning-the-cluster

**This will require a minium of three nodes, since you only have two nodes this will not be suitable.

[Gowrab]

Is ceph a third party tool or it comes with HPVME? 

[Ranveer]

Hello Gowrab,

CEPH comes with HPE VM Essentials software (You dont have to install ) & gets installed with outher softwares when you install VM Essentials Manager (Also called Console ) on all hosts.

Refer below document to see the Ports needed by CEPH:

https://hpevm-docs.morpheusdata.com/en/latest/infrastructure/clusters/clusters.html?highlight=ceph

Regards
Ranveer

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