vVols Deep Dive: Understanding Virtual Volumes and Failure Scenarios

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A crucial step to understanding how vVols works with Everpure is knowing the terminology as well as the architecture. In this Overview section let's cover some of the terminology that will be referred to throughout the KB, as well as a high level view of the vVol Architecture.

Both management interfaces must be configured on both controllers and both arrays with enabled and active links. The management interfaces are as follows:

  • FlashArray//XR4 - ct0.eth4, ct0.eth5, ct1.eth4, ct1.eth5
  • All other FlashArray Models - ct0.eth0, ct0.eth1, ct1.eth0