SvHCI & SvSAN Pool licensing

This article is intended for administrators wishing to configure an SvHCI nodes pool storage.

Within SvHCI a pool is configured on storage to be utilized by both ISOs and Guest VM disks.

The pool is akin to the VMFS in a VMware world with the Guest VM disk existing, as a synchronous mirror (RF2), across the nodes.

A pool can be on top of any hardware RAID type. e.g RAID5, RAID10, HDD or SSD.

Or a software RAID 0, 1 or 10 may also be configured over individual disk drives.

SvHCI creates a boot pool, by default, on the remaining space of the install disk.  This is to accomodate server systems with just 1x RAID disk, rather than separate boot storage.

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Information

Boot pool

Per the below SvHCI creates a boot pool on the remaining space after the installation partitions have been created:

This consumes license capacity and may be used for ISOs and Guest VM disks.

This enables the support and use of server systems with just a single RAID disk of storage, rather than requiring separate boot storage.

Storage pool

It is also possible to create a separate pool from additional storage within the server. This could be a hardware RAID disk,

or a software RAID0, 1 or 10 of individual drives.

Pool licensing

Each license will have a capacity associated with it that is consumed based on total pool size on the node, not RAW disk, per the below:

It is possible to change the licensing of a pool up or down with the License Pool Capacity option, such as the below limiting the pool to 2TB:

Having restricted the capacity, note the free space in the pool per the below example:

See Also

https://stormagic.com/manual/