One policy setting that I have yet to discuss in any great detail in my blog posts about VSAN. The ForceProvisioning policy setting, when placed in the VM Storage Policy, allows Virtual SAN to violate the NumberOfFailuresToTolerate (FTT), NumberOfDiskStripesPerObject (SW) and FlashReadCacheReservation (FRCR) policy settings during the initial deployment of a virtual machine. This can be useful for many reasons. One reason is that it enables the boot-strapping of a vCenter server on a VSAN deployment as highlighted by William Lam in this excellent blog post on the subject. Another reason is that it allows the provisioning of virtual machines…