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Deployment requirements for NVMe vVols in a VI workload domain

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Review the recommended network design and infrastructure requirements to deploy NVMe vVols in a VMware Cloud Foundation VI workload domain. You need a fully configured ONTAP AFF or ASA storage system, a deployed VCF management domain, and an existing VI workload domain.

Infrastructure requirements

  • An ONTAP AFF or ASA storage system with physical data ports on Ethernet switches dedicated to storage traffic.

  • VCF management domain deployment is complete and the vSphere client is accessible.

  • A VI workload domain has been previously deployed.

NetApp recommends fully redundant network designs for NVMe/TCP. The following diagram illustrates an example of a redundant configuration, providing fault tolerance for storage systems, switches, networks adapters and host systems.

NVMe-tcp network design

For multipathing and failover across multiple paths, configure a minimum of two LIFs per storage node in separate Ethernet networks for all SVMs in NVMe/TCP configurations.

What's next?

After reviewing the deployment requirements, create the SVM and LIFs.