Data Domain: Creating a datastore on DD

Summary: What does it mean when you say add a datastore on DD.

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Instructions

If VxRail requests to create a datastore on DD, it essentially means creating a NFS share on DD.

Once NFS share created on DD, it can then be mounted on ESX which VxRail can use it as a datastore to move VM s / VM disk files from one datastore to this share/datastore.

Additional Information

  • VMware supports both VMFS and NFS for datastore.
  • Both the datastore supports vMotion, which essentially is a feature to move VM s from one host to another.
  • There isn t much of a difference between VMFS and NFS other than NFS is file-level and VMFS is a block-level file system.

Affected Products

Data Domain, VxRail Appliance Family
Article Properties
Article Number: 000009596
Article Type: How To
Last Modified: 10 Jun 2024
Version:  4
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