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esxi/vsan-witness-stretch-cluster

Defines any additional command line options to pass to ansible for playbooks

This Param provides details necessary to create a VSAN Stretch Cluster with a VSAN Witness. The Witness VM is required in Stretch topologies to help resolve split horizon leader election problems if the network is disconnected between the Stretch Cluster members.

In addition to this Param, the following other Params must be set for completion of the configuraiton:

  • esxi/datacenter-name
  • esxi/cluster-name

In addition to the above, this Param has a structure as follows:

    witness_host: VSAN_WITNESS
    first_fault_domain_hosts:
      - HOST1
    second_fault_domain_hosts:
      - HOST2
      - HOST3