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PowerStore X model appliances can provision volumes and volume groups to external hosts. For example, you can provision volumes to external ESXi nodes for Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) datastores or Raw Disk Mappings (RDMs).
By default, AppsON virtual machines use the PowerStore efficient vVol implementation due to its simple nature, design optimizations, and integration within PowerStore Manager. Due to these benefits, it is recommended to use vVols for all AppsON virtual machines. Starting with PowerStoreOS 2.0, PowerStore X model appliances also support VMFS datastores for the storage of virtual machines within AppsON. This process is done by allowing the mapping of block volumes to the PowerStore internal ESXi hosts using the PowerStore REST API or CLI, or both. For more information about configuring VMFS on PowerStore X model appliance internal nodes, reference article KB182913 on Dell Support.