vVols is a SAN/NAS management and integration framework that exposes virtual disks as native storage objects and enables array-based operations at the virtual disk level. vVols transform the data plane of SAN/NAS devices by aligning storage consumptions and operations with the VM.

Enable a more efficient operational model with vSphere Virtual Volumes (vVols), an integration and management framework that virtualizes SAN/NAS arrays.

vVols enables application-specific requirements to drive storage provisioning decisions while leveraging the rich set of capabilities provided by storage arrays. Some of the primary benefits delivered by vVols focus around operational efficiencies and flexible consumption models.

2025年1月15日 · With vVols, VMware offers a paradigm in which an individual virtual machine and its disks, rather than a LUN, becomes a unit of storage management for a storage system. vVols encapsulate virtual disks and other virtual machine files, and natively store the files on the storage system.

vSphere Storage describes virtualized and software-defined storage technologies that VMware ESXi and VMware vCenter Server offer, and explains how to configure and use these technologies.

2023年6月1日 · The concept of VMware vVols is that a VM and virtual disks are basic units of storage management, unlike LUNs that are the entire datastores where files of multiple VMs are stored. Organizing data using VMware vVols is convenient for storage arrays in large data centers with many VMs.

2020年8月25日 · VMware vVols are an attempt to solve this problem by more closely matching the requirements of a virtual machine (VM) to the underlying storage. In other words, storage can be provisioned dynamically according to the needs of the VM. VVol creation can even be tied to application provisioning.

2019年8月20日 · VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes (vVols) has been talked about a lot over the years and we are seeing increased adoption rates as well. Albeit the increase in adoption, there are still admins who are hesitant or unaware of the architecture and advantages vVols provide.

2015年3月16日 · VVOLs is a provisioning feature for vSphere 6 that changes how virtual machines (VMs) are stored and managed. With Virtual Volumes in vSphere, policy-based storage management promises to give...

2022年9月15日 · We are thrilled to introduce NVMe over Fabrics (NVMeoF) support for vSphere Virtual Volumes (vVols) in vSphere 8. Many array vendors and the industry are moving towards the NVMe-oF protocol for better performance and throughput over traditional SCSI and NFS (Network File System) connectivity.