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With VVols, each VM is on it its own VVOL. They are not shared between VMs. If you want to allocate 3 TB for a file server VM, you create a new file server VM, which will create a new VVOL. Your SAN needs to have enough free space in its pool for the VM.
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With VVols, each VM is on it its own VVOL. They are not shared between VMs. If you want to allocate 3 TB for a file server VM, you create a new file server VM, which will create a new VVOL. Your SAN needs to have enough free space in its pool for the VM.

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Thanks for the response Kevin. <br />
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At the moment we have a vvol as a datastore type. should that be VMFS6?
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Thanks for the response Kevin.

At the moment we have a vvol as a datastore type. should that be VMFS6?

Technical Information

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what's the advantage/disadvantage of having multiple datastores instead of one big one?
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what's the advantage/disadvantage of having multiple datastores instead of one big one?

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Please read Virtual Volumes Key Technical Elements from the second link
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Please read Virtual Volumes Key Technical Elements from the second link

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Hi,<br />
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We have an 18TB VVol, and want to allocate 3 TB for the file servers. The rest of the volume will be used by other VM’s.<br />
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Can we create a 3TB volume inside the VVol so the file servers can use this space? Alternatively, shall we shrink the VVOL and allocate the space to the fileservers the free space?<br />
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Whats the best way to handle this as I know VVOLs work different to &nbsp;VMFS<br />
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Thanks
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Hi,

We have an 18TB VVol, and want to allocate 3 TB for the file servers. The rest of the volume will be used by other VM’s.

Can we create a 3TB volume inside the VVol so the file servers can use this space? Alternatively, shall we shrink the VVOL and allocate the space to the fileservers the free space?

Whats the best way to handle this as I know VVOLs work different to  VMFS

Thanks

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