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PowerStoreOS 3.0 adds support to create either SCSI or NVMe storage containers. Before this release, all storage containers were SCSI by default. SCSI storage containers support host access through SCSI protocols, which include iSCSI or Fibre Channel. NVMe storage containers support host access through NVMe/FC protocols.
PowerStoreOS 3.0 also provides a new option when creating a storage container on a PowerStore system. Use the button to select either SCSI (Supports iSCSI or FC transport layer) or NVMe (Supports NVMe FC transport layer). See the following figure. This selection specifies the protocol type for that storage container, and any hosts which mount the storage container as a vVol datastore must have appropriate connectivity and support.
On the Storage Containers page in PowerStore Manager, a new column introduced in PowerStoreOS 3.0 named Storage Protocol is now displayed by default, as shown in the following figure. This column details the supported storage protocol for a given storage container. A storage container can either by SCSI or NVMe, but there is no support for both protocols on the same storage container. This new feature has no impact on existing storage containers, which are all classified as SCSI.