As I described in my another post What's new in vSphere 6.0 - Virtual Volumes, VVOLs let you manage your storage at the virtual machine level instead of the datastore level. NetApp is one of the first storage vendor supporting VVOL. In this post I will show how to configure VVOL to be able to… Read More »
Recently I have been playing with VVOL on NetApp. During registering VASA Provider for clustered Data ONTAP with VSC for VMware vSphere I got the following error: NVPF-00014: Unable to contact VASA server on hosts of xxx In the Virtual Storage Console nvpf.log (C:\Program Files\NetApp\Virtual Storage Console\log), I found the following info: [2015-04-10 20:22:40,262] [qtp129672157-30]… Read More »
NetApp has released Virtual Storage Console (VSC) 6.0 and VASA 6.0 for VMware vSphere. On quick reminder, by running VSC, you can perform tasks such as the following: Manage storage and configure the ESX host Provision datastores and clone virtual machines Perform online alignments and migrate virtual machines individually and in groups into new or… Read More »