VMware Cloud Foundation Storage Support
Principle Storage: Storage option that can be chosen and deployed during deployment of a new workload or management domain.
Supplemental Storage: Storage option that can be configured in addition to principle storage but not until have the workload or management domain has been deployed.
|
Storage Type |
Principal |
Supplemental |
|---|---|---|
|
VMFS Fibre Channel |
Yes* |
Yes |
|
VMFS iSCSI |
No |
Yes |
|
VMFS NVMe-oF RoCEv2 |
No |
Yes |
|
VMFS NVMe-oF FC |
No |
Yes |
|
NFSv3 |
Yes |
Yes |
|
NFSv4.1 |
No |
Yes |
|
VMFS NVMe-oF TCP |
No |
Yes |
|
***Virtual Volumes iSCSI |
***No** |
***No |
|
***Virtual Volumes Fibre Channel |
***No** |
***No |
*Supported starting with VCF 3.9 **Starting with VCF 4.1 ***Support removed by Broadcom with VCF 9
User Guides
Videos
- VMware Cloud Foundation Videos: Virtual Volumes
- VMware Cloud Foundation Videos: Easily Reassign ESXi Hosts Between Workload Domains
- VMware Cloud Foundation Videos: End-to-End Setup with FlashStack and SmartConfig
- VMware Cloud Foundation Videos: ActiveCluster
- VMware Cloud Foundation Videos: Configuring Fibre Channel
- VMware Cloud Foundation Videos: Configuring iSCSI
How-To Articles
- How To: Leveraging FlashArray Snapshots for VCF Host Reassignment
- How To: Deploy VCF Workload Domains with vVols and FC as Principal Storage
- How To: Deploy VCF Workload Domains with vVols and iSCSI as Principal Storage
- How To: Using VCF with iSCSI as Supplemental Storage
- How To: VMware Cloud Foundation with VMFS on FC as Principal Storage
- How To: Using VCF with vVols as Supplemental Storage
- Using VMware Cloud Foundation with Everpure Whitepaper