To provide extra storage capacity to your VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC, create a datastore.
VMware Cloud Flex Storage provides NFS datastores for workloads that do not require vSAN performance for mission-critical or consistent low-latency storage requirements.
When you create a datastore, you select an SDDC and attach its clusters to the datastore. You are billed for a minimum of 25 TiB of storage capacity for each datastore you create. Each datastore provides up to ~800 TiB of logical (usable) capacity.
A datastore is associated with one SDDC only, but you can mount up to four datastores per-SDDC. If you do not have an SDDC deployed in the region you are managing, then you cannot create a datastore there.
Current limitations for creating a datastore:
- You cannot use non-ASCII characters in the datastore name.
- Do not create a datastore if the SDDC cluster is running a main task, such as adding or removing a host from the cluster.
- Once you create a datastore, you cannot move it to a different AWS availability zone.
- Cloning VMs that reside on a VMware Cloud Flex Storage datastore requires a full data copy and hence can take some time to complete.