Learn about converting a vSphere environment with existing datastores to a VCF management domain
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Converting a vSphere environment with existing Fibre Channel or NFS datastores on ONTAP involves integrating the current infrastructure into a modern private cloud architecture.
Solution overview
This solution demonstrates how existing FC or NFS datastores in vSphere become principal storage when the cluster is converted to a VCF management domain.
This process benefits from the robustness and flexibility of ONTAP storage to ensure seamless data access and management. After a VCF management domain is established through the conversion process, administrators can efficiently import additional vSphere environments, including those using both FC and NFS datastores, into the VCF ecosystem.
This integration not only enhances resource usage but also simplifies the management of private cloud infrastructure, ensuring a smooth transition with minimal disruption to existing workloads.
Architecture overview
The architecture of ONTAP tools integrates seamlessly with VMware environments, leveraging a modular and scalable framework that includes the ONTAP tools services, vSphere plug-in, and REST APIs to enable efficient storage management, automation, and data protection.
ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere can be installed in either HA or non-HA configurations.
Supported solutions for converting a vSphere environment
Refer to the following solutions for the technical details to convert a vCenter instance.
Additional information
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For video demos of these solutions, refer to VMware datastore provisioning with ONTAP.
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For an overview of the conversion process, refer to the Convert a vSphere environment to a management domain or Import a vSphere environment as a VI workload domain in VMware Cloud Foundation.
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For information on configuring ONTAP storage systems, refer to ONTAP 9 documentation.
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For information on configuring VCF, refer to VMware Cloud Foundation documentation.
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For supported storage and other considerations to convert or import vSphere to VCF 5.2, refer to Considerations before converting or importing existing vSphere environments into VMware Cloud Foundation.