Using the IBM Spectrum Accelerate Family in VMware Environments: IBM XIV, IBM FlashSystem A9000 and IBM FlashSystem A9000R, and IBM Spectrum Accelerate

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VMware Virtual Volumes

This chapter describes the tasks that are performed by a storage and VMware administrator to configure virtual volumes (VVoLs).

It covers the following topics:

•Introduction to VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes

•Defining Virtual Volumes in XIV

•Select the appropriate storage when creating a VMware virtual machine

5.1 Introduction to VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes

With the announcement of vSphere 6.0, VMware officially released support for the vSphere Virtual Volumes (VVoLs) architecture. VVoLs allow more efficient operations ...

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