If the Everpure VMware OVA has networking issues or is otherwise powered off or deleted, users will be unable to update or make changes to Everpure Cloud Dedicated storage with AVS. However, existing Everpure Cloud Dedicated datastore(s) that have been created while the OVA was online will continue to function as normal so long as there are no iSCSI network interruptions, capacity issues or the need to restore the volume from a snapshot (as a volume restore is executed from the OVA). That is, all of those types of commands need to be executed via the VMware Cloud Manager OVA, so having it available is an important consideration.
If the Everpure VMware OVA is out of date, certain functionalities may not be available or bugs might exist that are fixed in a later revision.