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How to deploy and run the VSAN 6.1 Witness Virtual Appliance on VMware Fusion & Workstation?

09.11.2015 by William Lam // 20 Comments

One of the most exciting new feature in VSAN 6.1 is the new Stretched Clustering capability which also provides support for a 2-Node ROBO deployment. If you are interested in learning more about the new VSAN 6.1 capabilities, be sure to check out Duncan's blog post here as well as a video on how to configure the new VSAN Stretched Clustering here. Like many of you, I am sure you are looking forward to giving both vSphere 6.0 Update 1 as well as the new VSAN 6.1 capabilities a spin in your home lab or development environment. By now, you probably know how easy it is to run Nested ESXi on top of your existing vSphere environment. However, not everyone has access to a vSphere environment. The next best thing is using VMware Fusion and Workstation which also supports Nested ESXi and for many of our customers and field, it is a great solution as it allows you to easily play with all the VMware goodies while you are on the go, especially useful if you travel frequently.

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Categories // ESXi, Fusion, Home Lab, OVFTool, VSAN, Workstation Tags // guestinfo.ovfEnv, ova, ovf, ovftool, Virtual SAN, VSAN, VSAN 6.1, vSphere 6.0 Update 1, witness

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