August 2018
Intermediate to advanced
598 pages
13h 22m
English
Content preview from Data Center Virtualization Certification: VCP6.5-DCV Exam Guide
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vVOL architecture
The Virtual Volumes architecture has five major components:
- vVOL Objects: Can be Config- vVOL (Metadata), Data- vVOL (VMDKs), Mem-vVOL (Snapshots), Swap- vVOL (Swap files), or Other- vVOL (Vendor solution-specific).
- Protocol Endpoint (PE): It's a logical I/O proxy that permits ESXi to communicate with the storage and "speak" to vVOLs. ESXi uses Protocol Endpoints (PE) to establish a data path on demand from VMs to their respective vVOLs objects.
- Storage Container (SC): Unlike traditional LUN and NFS-based vSphere storage, the vVOLs functionality does not require pre configured LUNs or volumes on the storage side, but at least a designed spaced is needed. This is called a storage container, which is a pool of raw storage ...
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