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Managing traditional and vVols datastores

You can use the VSC interface to manage both traditional and VMware Virtual Volumes (vVols) datastores and perform mount, resize, edit, and remove datastore operations.

  • Mounting datastore on additional hosts
    Mounting a datastore provides storage access to additional hosts. You can mount the datastore on the additional hosts after you add the hosts to your VMware environment.
  • Resizing datastores
    Resizing a datastore enables you to increase or decrease the storage for your virtual machine files. You might need to change the size of a datastore as your infrastructure requirements change.
  • Editing a vVols datastore
    You can edit an existing VMware Virtual Volumes (vVols) datastore to change the default storage capability profile. The default storage capability profile is primarily used for Swap vVols.
  • Adding storage to a vVols datastore
    You can increase the available storage by using the Add Storage wizard to add FlexVol volumes to an existing VMWare Virtual Volumes (vVols) datastore.
  • Removing storage from a vVols datastore
    If a VMware Virtual Volumes (vVols) datastore has multiple FlexVol volumes, you can remove one or more of the FlexVol volumes from the vVols datastore without deleting the datastore.
  • Mounting a vVols datastore
    You can mount a VMware Virtual Volumes (vVols) datastore to one or more additional hosts by using the Mount vVol Datastore dialog box. Mounting the datastore provides storage access to additional hosts.
  • Migrating traditional virtual machines to vVols datastores
    You can migrate virtual machines from traditional datastores to Virtual Volumes (vVols) datastores to take advantage of policy-based VM management and other vVols capabilities. vVols datastores enable you to meet increased workload requirements.
  • Migrating virtual machines with older storage capability profiles
    If you are using the latest version of the virtual appliance for Virtual Storage Console (VSC), VASA Provider, and Storage Replication Adapter (SRA), then you should migrate your virtual machines that are provisioned with the MaxThroughput MBPS or MaxThroughput IOPS QoS metrics to new VVol datastores that are provisioned with the Max IOPS QoS metrics of the latest version of the virtual appliance for VSC, VASA Provider, and SRA.