Supported re-configurations of vSAN File Service Domain.

Products

• VMware vSAN
• VMware vSAN 8.x
• VMware vSAN 7.x

Issue/Introduction

This page is intended to provide information about re-configurations supported on vSAN File service domain.

Notice: Changing domain information is a disruptive action. It might require all clients to use new URLs to reconnect to the file shares.

Environment

VMware VSAN 7.0 U3g

VMware VSAN 8.0. x  

Resolution

The below list of reconfigure options supported on vSAN File Services.

Configuration option	Supported on vSAN 7.0 U3g	Supported on ESXi 8.0 and later
vSANFS domain name	Supported	Supported
DNS server IP	Supported	Supported
DNS suffixes	Supported	Supported
vSANFS network submask	Supported	Supported
vSANFS network gateway	Supported	Supported
FS containers IP address and FQDN	Not supported	Supported
Primary FS container	Not supported	Supported
Enable/Disable Active Directory	AD can be enabled after FS domain is running but not disabled.	Supported
AD domain name	Not supported	Supported only by first disabling AD and reconfiguring it
AD organizational unit	Not supported	Supported only by first disabling AD and reconfiguring it
AD username	Not supported	Supported only by first disabling AD and reconfiguring it
AD password	Supported	Supported
FSVM Name Change	Not supported	Not supported

Additional Information

Note: Changing domain information is a disruptive action. It might require all clients to use new URLs to reconnect to the file shares.

The vSAN File Services oversee the FSVM, refrain from executing any actions on the FSVM as per Configure File Services.