Add or Remove HCI Nodes
As part of the what-if analysis for
physical infrastructure planning for hyperconverged environments, the Infrastructure
Planning: Hyperconverged pane is what you use to fill in the details of your what-if
scenario. When you add an HCI node, you can select an existing server type from your vSAN
activated data center and change the number of instances of this server to calculate
storage, compute capacity, time remaining, and cost. You can run the Remove HCI Nodes
scenario to see the capacity changes after you remove HCI nodes from your data center.
Where You Find
Workload Planning
At the
What-If Analysis
page,
click Add HCI
Nodes
or Remove HCI Nodes
in the Infrastructure Planning:
Hyperconverged
pane. Option | Description |
|---|---|
Scenario
Name
| Name of your scenario. |
Location
| Where do you want to add the HCI node? Select from the list of
existing data centers. You must also choose the exact cluster
where you want the HCI node to reside. |
Server
Details
| Allows you to select an existing server type to calculate capacity,
time, and storage remaining based on the number of instances of
the server. |
Number of servers to add
| How many instances of the server do you want to add? Only 60 new
hosts can be added to the specified vSAN cluster as the
maximum allowed is 64 hosts. |
Start
Date/End Date
| Select from pop-up calendars the start and end
date for the workload. The end date cannot be later than one
year from the current date. |
Run
Scenario
| Click to run the scenario. The system calculates whether it fits into
the location you selected. |
Save
| Save the scenario. |
Cancel
| Cancel the scenario. |
Option | Description |
|---|---|
Scenario
Name
| Name of your scenario. |
Location
| From where do you want to remove capacity? Select from the list of
existing data centers, then select the cluster from where you
want to remove the server(s). |
Server
Details
| Clicking Select
Server displays the Select Server Type dialog
box, where you can choose only the server types that exist in
your selected cluster. The number of
servers that you plan to remove is limited by the number of
selected server types available in the selected cluster.
|
Implementation date/End Date (optional)
| Select from pop-up calendars the start and end
date for the what-if scenario. You can choose to keep the end
date blank. |
Run
Scenario
| Click to run the scenario. The system
determines any new time remaining number. |
Save
| Save the scenario. |
Cancel
| Cancel the scenario. |