In this post, the VSAN capabilities are examined in detail. These capabilities, which are surfaced by the VASA storage provider when the cluster is configured successfully, are used to set the availability, capacity & performance policies on a per VM basis when that VM is deployed on the vsanDatastore. There are 5 capabilities in the initial release of VSAN, as shown below. I will also try to highlight where you should use a non-default value for these capabilities. Number of Failures To Tolerate This capability sets a requirement on the storage object to tolerate at least ‘Number of Failures To…