VMware vSAN 6.6 – Number of votes and witnesses…

VMware vSAN 6.6 – Number of votes and witnesses explained

VMware vSAN 6.6 – Number of votes and witnesses…

I got a question from a fellow VCI asking me why a vSAN policy with FTT=1 and SW=2 doesn’t need any witnesses and why a policy with FTT=2 and SW=1 needs two witnesses. He was also confused by the number of votes the components got. There’s a simple answer for this, please keep in mind that components are not able to get a majority of votes if you lose more than one host. So, in case of FTT=2 and losing two hosts, one single surviving component would only get 33% of the votes, without any…Read More

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