An administrator is working on a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Workload Domain that was configured...

vSAN datastores are not managed through datastore clusters and Storage DRS in the same way as traditional VMFS or NFS datastore collections. A vSAN cluster exposes a distributed vSAN datastore, and VM placement, resilience, space efficiency, and compliance are controlled through vSAN Storage Policy Based Management rather than Storage DRS. The scenario also includes mixed vSAN OSA and vSAN ESA storage across clusters, which introduces an additional compatibility concern. vSAN OSA and vSAN ESA datastores are different architectures and are not combined into a single datastore-cluster construct for uniform Storage DRS placement. A datastore cluster should not combine different storage architectures such as vSAN, Fibre Channel, and NFS because Storage DRS assumes similar, interchangeable datastore resources. Creating a datastore cluster through APIs does not make vSAN datastores supported in this model. Therefore, the administrator should consider that vSAN datastores are not supported in datastore clusters and should use vSAN storage policies and appropriate datastore selection instead. Reference topics: vSAN Datastores, Storage Policy Based Management, Datastore Cluster Requirements, vSAN OSA and ESA Compatibility.