{"id":2964,"date":"2015-07-08T11:51:53","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T03:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vspherestorage.com\/?p=2964"},"modified":"2015-07-08T11:51:54","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T19:51:54","slug":"not-all-virtual-volumes-are-the-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vspherestorage.com\/?p=2964","title":{"rendered":"Not all Virtual Volumes are the same"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not all Virtual Volumes are the same<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/vmw.re\/1dMA0CT' target='_blank'><img src='https:\/\/d3utlhu53nfcwz.cloudfront.net\/171901\/cdnImage\/article\/f4194529-9b86-4114-b1cc-3afab7386546\/?size=Box320'><\/a><\/p>\n<h4><a href='http:\/\/vmw.re\/1dMA0CT' style='text-decoration: none;' target='_blank'>Not all Virtual Volumes are the same<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>VMware Virtual Volumes (or VVols) are a new important features of vSphere 6.0 that could be really important for storage vendors, because they permit to convert external storage in VM-aware storage. It could be really useful for block based storage, but also for NFS storage it can be used to provide a complete per-VM granularity, policy based management and integration with specific storage services: But note that storage vendors can implement different features in different way, so does not&#8230;<a href='http:\/\/vmw.re\/1dMA0CT' target='_blank'>Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/advocacy.vmware.com' target='_blank'>VMware Advocacy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not all Virtual Volumes are the same Not all Virtual Volumes are the same VMware Virtual Volumes (or VVols) are a new important features of vSphere 6.0 that could be really important for storage vendors, because they permit to convert external storage in VM-aware storage. 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