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Dell EMC VxRail Multirack Deployment Guide
8.2
Witness component validation
To verify vSAN component placement for a virtual machine, complete the following steps:
1. Open and login to the vSphere Web Client
2. From the Home menu, select Hosts and Clusters and expand the sfo01m01vc01.sfo01.rainpole.local
tree.
3. Select the
sfo01-w01-vxrail
cluster and click the
Monitor
tab.
4. Under vSAN, click Virtual Objects.
5. Select the
VxRail Manager
virtual machine object.
6. Click View Placement Details.
Figure 21 shows the VxRail Manager virtual machines virtual objects. This view shows virtual object Hard disk
1 using the default RAID 1 (mirror) vSAN storage policy. Components are mirrored between VxRail node
sfo01w01vxrail01
in the Preferred fault domain and
sfo01w01vxrail06
in the Secondary fault domain,
and the witness component is located on s
fo03w01vsanw01
.The remaining three objects are configured
similar with some components being located on alternative hosts in the Secondary fault domain.
VxRail Manager virtual object placement