A six-node vSAN ESA cluster contains multiple Virtual Machines (VMs), and a vSAN storage policy...

The policy edit is valid for a six-node vSAN ESA cluster because RAID-6 with Failures to tolerate set to 2 requires at least six ESX hosts in the vSphere cluster. However, editing a VM storage policy that is already associated with virtual machine objects does not automatically communicate the new requirements to those objects. vSphere marks the compliance status as Out of Date, indicating that the policy has been edited but the new requirements have not yet been communicated to the datastore where the VM objects reside. The administrator must reapply the VM Storage Policy to the affected objects before vSAN evaluates the new RAID-6 requirement and begins any layout changes or resynchronization needed to bring objects into compliance. The change is not rejected because the cluster satisfies the minimum host count. It is not automatically applied serially to the VMs, and the 60-minute timer is related to repair-delay behavior after failures, not normal storage policy changes. Reference topics: Reapply Virtual Machine Storage Policy, Out-of-Date Compliance, vSAN ESA RAID-5, vSAN ESA RAID-6.