From the course: vSphere 6.7 Professional Part 02: Managing Storage

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Virtual volumes (VVOL)

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From the course: vSphere 6.7 Professional Part 02: Managing Storage

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Virtual volumes (VVOL)

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- [Instructor] In this video, we'll introduce Virtual Volumes. And Virtual Volumes is really the next generation of vSphere storage. And we've already spent some time learning about VMFS Datastores, and NFS Datastores, and things like that, and Virtual SAN. Virtual Volumes are kind of the next step in the evolution of storage. But the other nice thing about them is they support a lot of the existing storage architecture that already exists. So, for example, Virtual Volumes support common storage networks like Fiber Channel, and iSCSI, and NFS. But the biggest difference is that our virtual machine objects are actually exposed to the storage array. Right? So, let's kind of think about the way that things are right now, right? Without Virtual Volumes, what we've got are datastores, right? We've got these datastores, and here's our datastore. And our datastore is formatted with VMFS. So here is a VMFS…

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