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Requirements for using the VAAI environment

The VAAI features are part of the ESX operating system and are automatically invoked by the ESX host when you have set up the correct environment.

The environment requirements are as follows:

  • The ESX host must be running ESX 6.0U3 or later.

  • The Lenovo storage system that is hosting the VMware datastore must be running ONTAP.

  • (Copy offload only) The source and the destination of the VMware copy operation must be hosted on the same storage system within the same cluster.

    Note
    The copy offload feature currently does not support copying data between VMware datastores that are hosted on different storage systems.