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Witness cluster for Regulated Workloads multizone

Witness cluster for Regulated Workloads multizone

New deployments of Regulated Workloads multizone instances are not supported. For existing multizone instances, you can still add and delete clusters, add and delete ESXi servers or NFS storage, and delete add-on services.

Cluster name

The witness cluster name is set to mcv-xx-witness by default, where xx represents two randomly generated alphabetic characters. You can also specify a new witness cluster name, which must meet the following requirements.

Witness cluster name requirements

  • Only lowercase alphabetic, numeric, and hyphen (-) characters are allowed.
  • The witness cluster name must start with a lowercase alphabetic character.
  • The witness cluster name must end with a lowercase alphabetic or numeric character.
  • The maximum length of the witness cluster name is 10 characters.
  • The witness cluster name must be unique within the regulated workload instance.

CPU model and RAM

You can choose the following CPU models and a supported RAM size:

Options for Cascade Lake bare metal servers
CPU model Cores GHz RAM
Dual Intel® Xeon® Silver 4210 (Cascade Lake) 20 2.2 128 GB, 192 GB, 384 GB, 768 GB, 1.5 TB
Dual Intel Xeon Gold 5218 (Cascade Lake) 32 2.3 128 GB, 192 GB, 384 GB, 768 GB, 1.5 TB
Dual Intel Xeon Gold 6248 (Cascade Lake) 40 2.5 128 GB, 192 GB, 384 GB, 768 GB, 1.5 TB
Dual Intel Xeon Platinum 8260 (Cascade Lake) 48 2.4 128 GB, 192 GB, 384 GB, 768 GB, 1.5 TB
Quad Intel Xeon Gold 6248 (Cascade Lake) 80 2.5 384 GB, 768 GB, 1.5 TB, 3 TB
Quad Intel Xeon Platinum 8260 (Cascade Lake) 96 2.4 384 GB, 768 GB, 1.5 TB, 3 TB

Number of bare metal servers

You can order 3 - 30 servers. All servers have the same configuration.

vSAN configuration

Specify the following settings for the vSAN™ configuration.

Size for vSAN capacity disks

Select an option for the capacity disks that you need.

Number of vSAN capacity disks

Specify the number of capacity disks that you want to add.

Estimated resources available per cluster

Review the estimated resources available per cluster.

Networking

Specify the networking type and uplink speed.

Networking type

The networking type is set to Private network only.