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VMFS datastores are accessed through block protocols, and SCSI (Fibre Channel or iSCSI) or NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe/TCP or NVMe/FC) connectivity is required. After the communication path is established, ensure the VMware ESXi hosts for these datastores are registered by creating host objects on PowerStore. Then, you can create block volumes and map them to the VMware ESXi hosts. In vSphere, administrators must create a VMFS datastore that uses the PowerStore volume that is mapped to the VMware ESXi host.
PowerStore VMFS datatores can be used to provision clustered virtual disks for Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) deployments. VMware supports accessing clustered VMDKs through FC and NVMe/FC. For more information about clustered virtual disks, see the VMware vSphere documentation.
With the introduction of PowerStoreOS 3.0, PowerStore Manager provides visibility into VMFS datastores created on PowerStore volumes. If the vCenter is registered with PowerStore, you can use PowerStore Manager to view the virtual machines on the datastore, along with their compute and storage metrics. The Volumes page has a new Datastore column (hidden by default) which shows the mapping from the volume to the VMFS datastore.