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VAAI support in vSphere Standard and up as of 6.0!

Duncan Epping · May 22, 2015 ·

After some internal discussions over the last months it was decided to move VAAI (vSphere APIs for Array Integration) and Multi-Pathing down to vSphere Standard as of 6.0. Main reason for this was that Virtual Volumes, by many considered as the natural evolution of VAAI, is also part of vSphere Standard. So if you have vSphere Standard and a VAAI capable array and looking to move to 6.0, make sure to check the configuration of your hosts and use this great functionality! Note that VAAI did indeed already work in lower editions, but from a licensing point of view you weren’t entitled to it… I guess many folks never really looked at enabling / disabling it explicitly, but for those who did… now you can use it. More details on what is included with which license can be found here: http://www.vmware.com/au/products/vsphere/compare.html

VAAI support in vSphere Standard

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  1. Mark Burgess says

    25 May, 2015 at 09:28

    Hi Duncan,

    This is great news.

    All we need now is to move DRS/DPM into Standard which should kill off Enterprise which in turn should prevent customers moving to Hyper-V as Standard would be the obvious choice for most.

    Best regards
    Mark

  2. sig says

    2 June, 2015 at 09:50

    Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) Support into Standart

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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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