VxRail supports a number of storage protocols for Dell storage that is attached to VxRail dynamic nodes. For PowerStore specifically, there is a wide selection of options depending on how our customers want to take advantage of various protocols.

Table 1.      PowerStore supported protocol and storage types with VxRail, listed by PowerStore starting version

Note: The NFS protocol for PowerStore is not supported with the LCM integration of Dynamic AppsON.

NVMe/TCP

TCP (since we are going back to 3-tier, this gives you direct-attach like performance over the network)

vVols

vVols give you volume granularity with your VM datastores, enabling you to manage more of your storage from vCenter. In line with above)