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vSphere 5.1 Storage DRS Interoperability

Duncan Epping · May 13, 2013 ·

A while back I did this article on Storage DRS Interoperability. I had questions last week about this so I figured I would write a new article which reflects the current state (vSphere 5.1). I also included some details that are part of the interoperability white paper Frank and I did so that we have a fairly complete picture. This white paper is on 5.0, it will probably be updated at some point in the future.

The first column describes the feature or functionality, the second column the recommended or supported automation mode and the third and fourth column show which type of balancing is supported.

Capability Automation Mode Space Balancing I/O Metric Balancing
Array-based Snapshots Manual Yes Yes
Array-based Deduplication Manual Yes Yes
Array-based Thin provisioning Manual Yes Yes
Array-based Auto-Tiering Manual Yes No
Array-based Replication Manual Yes Yes
vSphere Raw Device Mappings Fully Automated Yes Yes
vSphere Replication Fully Automated Yes Yes
vSphere Snapshots Fully Automated Yes Yes
vSphere Thin provisioned disks Fully Automated Yes Yes
vSphere Linked Clones Fully Automated (*) Yes Yes
vSphere Storage Metro Clustering Manual Yes Yes
vSphere Site Recovery Manager Not supported n/a n/a
VMware vCloud Director Fully Automated (*) Yes Yes
VMware View (Linked Clones) Not Supported n/a n/a
VMware View (Full Clones) Fully Automated Yes Yes

(*) = Change from 5.0

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  1. Eric Krejci says

    13 May, 2013 at 15:06

    Hello,

    great to see that Linked Clones are now supported with sDRS for both type of balancing. but, is it supported with View?

    thank you in advance.

    sincerely

    Eric

    • Duncan Epping says

      16 May, 2013 at 21:43

      Not with linked clones unfortunately. Just updated the article. Thanks for the question!

  2. Tomas Fojta says

    19 May, 2013 at 11:55

    Duncan, regarding vCloud Director support: the old SDRS whitepaper considered only vCloud Director 1.5 with vSphere 5.0. Now we have two more options: VCD 5.1 with vSphere 5.1 (fully supported) but also VCD 5.1 with vSphere 5.0. vCAT implies that it is not supported. I would like to verify it is actually true and that there is a reason for it not to work or it is just a QA constrain. Do you have such information?

  3. orax86 says

    21 January, 2014 at 09:26

    Can I enable SIOC on the Datastore storage VMware View (Linked Clones)?

  4. gman says

    2 April, 2014 at 21:11

    How does Storage DRS do anything at all for physical RDMs?? I see claims for full RDM support but I don’t see anyone talking about it or explaining it. Can you explain this?

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Duncan Epping is a Chief Technologist in the Office of CTO of the Cloud Platform BU at VMware. He is a VCDX (# 007), the author of the "vSAN Deep Dive", the “vSphere Clustering Technical Deep Dive” series, and the host of the "Unexplored Territory" podcast.

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