Some days ago we discussed the prerequisites for provisioning VVOLs on NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP and vSphere 6. We have installed the NetApp Virtual Storage Console 6.0 and NetApp VASA 6.0. In this post we will see how VVOLs work in practice: create a Storage Capability Profile (SCP) provision a VVOL datastore some tests of… Read More »
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 »
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 »