Shared Storage Platform for a Virtual Infrastructure Workload Domain

For a VI workload domain, VMware Cloud Foundation supports several storage types as principal and supplemental storage including traditional storage, vSAN, and vSphere Virtual Volumes. This design includes guidance only for principal storage on vSAN.

Table 1. Shared Storage Types Supported for VI Workload Domains

Storage Type	Supported as Principal Storage	Supported as Supplemental Storage
Traditional Storage	Fibre Channel and NFS are applicable options for the principal storage for the VI workload domain. iSCSI storage is currently not supported.	Fibre Channel NFS iSCSI
VMware vSAN Storage	Yes	No
vSphere Virtual Volumes	Yes	Yes

Figure 1. Shared Storage Design for Workload Domains

Each storage type supports different vSphere features. See the vSphere Storage documentation.

For information on storage types other than vSAN in VMware Cloud Foundation, see Storage Management in the VMware Cloud Foundation Administration Guide .