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vSphere traditional block storage provisioning with ONTAP

Contributors kevin-hoke

VMware vSphere supports the following VMFS datastore options with ONTAP SAN protocol support indicated.

VMFS datastore options ONTAP SAN protocol support

yes

yes

yes

iSCSI Extensions for RDMA (iSER)

no

yes

NVMe over Fabric with RDMA over Converged Ethernet (NVMe/RoCE)

no

Note If iSER or NVMe/RoCE VMFS is required, check SANtricity-based storage systems.