Host or appliance placed in a third location to store witness components and act as tiebreaker for quorum in two-node and stretched vSAN clusters; no workloads run on it.
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Terms in this definition
- vSAN
VMware's software-defined storage, which combines local devices across a cluster's ESX hosts into one shared datastore. Available as OSA or ESA, VCF can use it as principal storage.