VVOL datastores

[kirannisarga84]

I have installed vsphere powercli 6.0 release 3. I want to use it to create VVOL datastores, but I do not find any option under "New-Datastore" command. I only see options to create NFS/VMFS datastores

1) Is there any option to create VVOL based datastores?
2) Are there other command line utlities to do the same? [vsphere cli?]

3) Will vsphere powercli support this option in later releases?

Thanks in advance,

Kiran

[LucD]

1. Not afaik

2. Yes, there is the esxcli command, See VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes: Getting Started Guide

[kirannisarga84]

Hi LucD,

Thanks for your response.

But it looks like the esxcli command currently is only to list the datastores and not create/modify/remove them. This is as per

a) Vmware documentation : https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-60/index.jsp#com.vmware.vsphere.troubleshooting.doc/GUID-45DB163F-3CC5-4E84-BF82-7FF6D53401D3.html

b) ESXcli command line help  which shows only "list"

Thanks,

Kiran

[Alan Renouf]

3) Will vsphere powercli support this option in later releases?

I couldn't possibly comment on future releases but I can tell you we monitor the forums and are very community based.  I would be interested in the list of things you would like to do if we created VVOL cmdlets please.

[Golos]

I'm currently researching same problem.

After adding new Storage Provider with New-VasaProvider I would like to create new VVOL datastore.

So I'm thinking either adding New-Vvol-Datastore and Remove-Vvol-Datastore would be nice, or extending existing datastore cmdlets to support VVOL datastores