This section explains the preparations for setting up storage.
Supported Storage Configurations
The supported storage configurations are as follow:
Storage supported by VMware
For details on the storage supported by VMware, refer to the VMware manual.
Storage configured for datastores of VMware ESX/ESXi (VMFS Version 3 or later, NFS mount, or VVOL), including L-Server system disks and data disks
Preparations for Storage Environments
Check the following:
Volumes to allocate to VMware ESX/VMware ESXi have been already created
Zoning and affinity have been set
VMware ESX/VMware ESXi has been configured to recognize a datastore
Point
To use VVOL as a disk for virtual L-Servers, ETERNUS SF Storage Cruiser 16.2 (with Patch T010894WP-02, Patch T010908WP-02, and subsequent patches applied) or later and ETERNUS VASA Provider 2.0 or later must be installed.
For details, refer to the manual of the relevant product.
Information
By registering the agent of the VM management software and the VM host with Resource Orchestrator, datastores are detected as virtual storage resources in Resource Orchestrator.
Whether the datastore is VMFS or VVOL can be distinguished based on the format of the virtual storage resource name.
Name Format of Virtual Storage Resources for VMFS (Datastores)
The datastore name is used for the virtual storage resource name.
However, when characters other than the following are included in a datastore name, they are replaced with hyphens ("-").
When this product manages two or more vCenters, there may be multiple datastores with the same name. In that case, the form of virtual storage resource names is the datastore name + "_" + serial number (Example: "_1").
Numerals (0 to 9)
Alphabetical characters: upper case (A to Z), lower case (a to z)
Hyphens ("-") and underscores ("_")
Name Format of Virtual Storage Resources for VVOL (Datastores)
Virtual storage resource names are indicated in the following format:
"VVOLDS_"+"VVOL_datastore_name"
However, if characters other than those listed below are included in the VVOL datastore name, replace them with hyphens ("-").
When this product manages two or more vCenters, there may be multiple VVOL datastores with the same name. In that case, the form of virtual storage resource names is the VVOL datastore name + "_" + serial number (Example: "_1").
Numerals (0 to 9)
Alphabetical characters: upper case (A to Z), lower case (a to z)
Hyphens ("-") and underscores ("_")
