If you were to pose this question, "Can a single Virtual Volume (VVol) span different physical arrays/devices?" to your storage vendor or
to VMware support today, you'd likely receive the following answer: "No. vSphere
does not support this."
Nevertheless, with the VMware certified, universal vSphere
APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA) provided from DataCore, you can easily achieve
that with full VMware support and without VVol certified hardware today. Use of
local discs alone, or in combination with other storage arrays as part of the
Virtual Volumes datastore, would even be sufficient.
Watch this on-demand webinar to discover:
- How to setup such a solution in real life
- How to implement auto-tiering across different arrays
