Learning VMware vSphere

Storage DRS

Much like ESXi hosts, the VMFS datastores can be grouped to form a datastore cluster. This helps in enabling the Storage Distributed Scheduler on it to ease datastore management.

Like with the clustering of the compute resource, datastore clusters will also need to meet certain requirements. Here are some of the most important ones:

• The datastores in a datastore cluster should only be accessible to ESXi hosts from a single data center (vCenter Data Center inventory object)
• A single datastore cluster cannot contain both VMFS and NFS volumes
• All the ESXi hosts accessing the datastores should be of version ESXi 5.0 or higher
• Additional requirements are listed in the vSphere 6 Resource Management Guide on page-91

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