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Status Future consideration
Workspace IBM Turbonomic ARM
Categories On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network)
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 20, 2024

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Add support for vSAN Witness host

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Implementing vSAN Stretched Clusters in a VMware vSphere environment requires setting up a witness host storing all meta data but hosting no VMs and acting as a quorum in a split brain situation (see https://core.vmware.com/resource/vsan-stretched-cluster-guide#vsan-stretched-clusters-vs-fault-domains). 

Turbonomic is discovering the Witness host as a host outside the cluster without an VMs running and is therefore recommending to suspend the host. The current workaround is setting a policy to prevent generating this action. Witness hosts implemented as virtual appliances (nested ESXi) can easily be identified by Model = ".*VMware.*" and maybe Number of hosted VMs = 0, but physical witness host cannot be grouped easily as you cannot group by field not existing for an entity like cluster name. Thus, the workaround needs to be applied or at least verified per cluster.

Please add the support for discovering witness hosts and automatically disabling suspend actions on those hosts.

Idea priority High

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