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In order to deploy the workload domain, the user must first commission ESXi hosts to SDDC Manager. Essentially these hosts are added as inventory which are then available for deployment. Depending on the storage assigned to them, they could be added to the existing management domain and become part of the vSAN environment or as a workload domain (HCI configuration) or, as in this case, used to create a separate workload domain. To do the latter, principal storage must be assigned to the hosts, in this example NFS.