Creating disks for virtual machines

ESI supports Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer, and VMware vSphere hypervisors. The disk options in ESI vary depending on what the hypervisor supports.

The following table shows the storage options that are supported by ESI for each hypervisor.

Disk Option

Microsoft Hyper-V

VMware vSphere

Citrix XenServer

Pass-through disk

Yes
(Pass-through SCSI)

Yes
(Raw Device Mapping)


File-based or virtual disk

Yes
(VHD or VHDX file)

Yes
(VMDK file)

Yes
(VHD file)

Datastore

 

Yes

 

SCSI disk

 

Yes

 

Host disk

Yes

 

 

Storage repository

 

 

Yes

Cluster shared volumes

Yes

 

 

You can create the following disk types for virtual machines:

Notes:

 

Related links

 

 Managing virtual machines in ESI

 ESI overview

 Attaching virtual disks

 Home window

 Removing virtual disks

 

 Viewing snapshot LUNs

 

 Deleting snapshot LUNs