Release Notes

69 Dell Virtual Storage Manager: Installation Considerations and Local Data Protection | 2079-BP-V-VSM
Figure 14 Protocol endpoint as shown in vSphere Web Client
Storage container: A storage container is reserved space on the SAN that can be increased and decreased as needs
change (PS Series storage requires thick, or 100 percent, space reservation). It can also be conceptualized as a type of
folder object on the SAN for organizing multiple volumes together.
Storage containers are seen and treated as regular datastores by vSphere, and are referred to as a vVol-type datastore.
They can be browsed as typically done when seeking virtual machine log files. They enable many vSphere workflows to
remain unchanged even though significant changes have occurred.
Multiple storage containers can exist within a PS Series group, up to 32, but they cannot span pool or be migrated from
one pool to another pool.
Figure 15 Datastores of type VMFS-5 and of type VVOL as shown in VSM plugin for vSphere Web Client
Virtual Volumes: At a high level, an individual Virtual Volume is a regular volume to the SAN and it can be manipulated
by various SAN functions. However, from the vSphere perspective, an individual virtual volume is part of a virtual
machine; a complete virtual machine consists of several Virtual Volumes of different types. The SAN is aware of the
Virtual Volumes that belong to other Virtual Volumes because of information communicated from vSphere through the
VASA Provider.