Calculate minimum, recommended N+1 and N+2 host counts for a VCF cluster from your workload profile, host specification, the real VCF management overhead (appliance by appliance, or a flat percentage) and the vSAN policy. Storage protection defaults to vSAN ESA Auto-RAID as used by VCF 9.1 / 9.1.1; OSA and manual ESA policies remain available, as does external storage.
CPU · RAM · storageVCF 9.1 appliancesN+1 / N+2vSAN ESA Auto-RAIDHost rebuild reserveMarkdown export
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