Virtual Volumes

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If you are using Virtual Volumes (vVols) the following connections are required:

  1. All iSCSI VLANs for the desired FlashArray must be connected to the interfaces of the ESXi hosts consuming the storage. It is highly advised to not route iSCSI so it is preferable that the VLANs be directly attached.
  2. The management VLAN should be connected to the vCenter VM AND the ESXi compute. This connectivity does not need to be direct, it can be accessible via routing. Note that individual VLANs cannot natively route to one another--you must configure software-based routing between the VLANs.