A quick reference to VVols (Virtual Volumes) posts
- vSphere 7.0, Cloud Native Storage, CSI and vVols support
- Site Recovery Manager support for vVols – Tech Preview at VMworld 2019
- VASA – Error while removing an entry for the provider in the providerCache
- A closer look at VVol Snapshots on Pure Storage with vSphere 6.7
- Registering the Pure Storage VASA Provider
- Changing policies on-the-fly with VVols
- Using tags with Storage Policy Based Management
- Losing the VASA provider and/or vCenter Server in VVols
- The value of VVols
- VVols for syslog and scratch usage
- Virtual Volumes, vSphere HA and heartbeat datastores
- Virtual Volumes and Replication/DR
- VSS and VVol snapshots (more comparison with traditional snapshots)
- More Virtual Volumes snapshots (comparison with traditional snapshots)
- A new way of doing snapshots
- Deep dive on VVols and VM migrations (cold migration, Storage vMotion)
- A closer look at Storage Containers
- Introducing Virtual Volumes (part of the vSphere 6.0 storage features series)
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HI Corman , What are the changes need to be done on Storage , so that it can support Vvols . (Capable of integration with VASA 2.0).?
Thanks And Regards,
Brijesh
Any number of things might be needed. You are probably best to ask the storage vendor directly, as it will vary from vendor to vendor.
Hi Cormac,
Thanks for your Immediate reply.
Actually we are doing a POC for our storage array to support VVOLs. We are very new to storage domain. I will be thankful for you,
If you can tell the requirement from an storage administrator point of view. what are the basic requirements for supporting VVOLs for our storage array?
Apart from the this what are the basic steps required for this?
Thanks In Advance.
Thansk & Regards,
Brijesh
Cormag, is it possible that vVOL replication can be done between storage of different vendors, which both support VASA 3.0 replication?
So I asked one of our VVol guys. The response was that, as far as replication, VVols offloads the replication to the array, so in the case of NetApp, a SnapMirror would be initiated, which does not replicate to other vendors.