You configured a vVoI datastore using HPE Storage integration Pack for VMware vCenter. Which storage object should you check using SSMC to verify…

A VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes (vVol) datastore is a logical construct that maps to a pool of storage on the array. According to the vSphere APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA) specification, this pool is called a Storage Container. When you use the HPE Storage Integration Pack for VMware vCenter to create a vVol datastore, it creates a corresponding Storage Container on the HPE Primera or 3PAR array. Within the HPE Storage System Management Console (SSMC), you manage and verify these vVol datastores by navigating to the "Storage Containers" section. This object represents the entire vVol datastore and its associated storage policies.

A. App Volume Set: An App Volume Set is a feature for grouping traditional volumes for application-consistent snapshots and management, not for representing a vVol datastore.

C. Virtual Volume Set: While a Storage Container is implemented as a Virtual Volume Set (vvset) on the array, the management term used in the SSMC interface and by the VASA protocol is "Storage Container".

D. virtual Volume: A Virtual Volume (vVol) represents an individual component of a virtual machine, such as a VMDK (config, data, swap), not the entire datastore.

1. HPE White Paper: Implementing VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes on HPE 3PAR StoreServ

Reference: Page 10

"HPE 3PAR StoreServ vVol implementation".

Quote/Content: "The storage container is a logical pool of storage on the HPE 3PAR StoreServ array that is presented to vSphere as a vVol datastore... On HPE 3PAR StoreServ

a storage container is a virtual volume set (vvset)." This confirms the mapping and terminology.

2. HPE Primera and HPE 3PAR SSMC 3.8 Administrator Guide

Reference: Page 181

Chapter 8

"Virtual Volumes"

Section "About Virtual Volumes".

Quote/Content: "A storage container is a logical storage construct that provides a pool of storage for virtual volumes... You can use SSMC to create

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and remove storage containers." This shows that "Storage Container" is the object managed within SSMC.

3. HPE 3PAR and Primera VMware ESXi 7.0 U2 and vSphere 7.0 U2 Implementation Guide

Reference: Page 41

"vSphere Virtual Volumes".

Quote/Content: "A vVol datastore is a storage container that is a logical abstraction on to which virtual volumes are stored. The storage container logically groups virtual volumes and maps to a hardware-based storage construct on the array." This document explicitly links the vVol datastore to the Storage Container concept.