Creating a VVol-enabled service

The IBM® Spectrum Control Base Edition introduces a comprehensive storage virtualization support, using VMware virtual volume (VVol) technology.

Before you begin

Note: The virtual volume functionality is supported by the IBM XIV® (11.5.1 or later) and storage systems that run IBM Spectrum Virtualize™ (7.6 or later).

Verify that all required ESXi hosts are connected and defined at the storage system side.
Verify that the Spectrum Control Base time is synchronized with the time, used by the vCenter server

About this task

This section details how to create a VVol-enabled storage service on XIV or storage systems that run IBM Spectrum Virtualize. The service or a group of services can be used to define storage spaces, serving as virtual datastores for VM deployment. See the following sections, depending on a storage system in use:

Parent topic: Best practices