Updated Information

This vSphere Storage is updated with each release of the product or when necessary.

This table provides the update history of the vSphere Storage.

Revision	Description
30 JUL 2024	Minor revisions.
28 SEP 2023	Added the Migrating Container Volumes in vSphere topic. Added a statement about amount of available space in the datastore for a core dump file. See Set Up a File as Core Dump Location. Added a statement about tag-based rules at a datastore cluster level to Create a VM Storage Policy for Tag-Based Placement.
31 JUL 2023	Minor revisions.
29 JUN 2023	Updated statements about the SCSI TimeoutValue parameter in ESXi Fibre Channel SAN Requirements and ESXi iSCSI SAN Recommendations and Restrictions.
06 APR 2023	Clarified information about the latency mechanism that can be activated for the Round Robin path selection policy: Path Selection Plug-Ins and Policies Change Default Parameters for Latency Round Robin
13 FEB 2023	Updated Failures When Migrating VMs or Deploying VM OVFs to Virtual Volumes Datastores with a note that starting with vSphere 7.0 Update 2, partners can increase the config-vVol to 4 GB and more.
07 FEB 2023	Updated Set Up Dynamic Disk Mirroring.
06 FEB 2023	Updated HPP Best Practices to include recommendation to use VMware Paravirtual or NVMe controllers with VM. See VMware High Performance Plug-In and Path Selection Schemes.
02 FEB 2023	Minor revisions.
31 JAN 2023	Clarified information about replication groups in the following topics: Virtual Volumes and Replication Groups Virtual Volumes and Fault Domains
11 JAN 2023	Added privileges required when a VM is encrypted. See Download Files from Datastores.
04 JAN 2023	Added a note with information about the snapshot.alwaysAllowNative parameter to Enable NAS Native Snapshots on Virtual Machines.
29 NOV 2022	Removed vSAN stretched cluster limitations from Requirements of Cloud Native Storage and Create a Storage Policy for Kubernetes.
28 OCT 2022	Updated graphic in Example of Network Topology with NVMe over TCP. Minor updates in Change Space Reclamation Settings.
24 AUG 2022	Minor revisions.
16 AUG 2022	Added a requirement to remount a datastore to Change Space Reclamation Settings.
29 JUL 2022	Clarified a replication group requirement for Virtual Volumes storage policy in Change Storage Policy Assignment for Virtual Machine Files and Disks.
26 JUL 2022	Minor revisions.
28 APR 2022	Minor revisions.
14 DEC 2021	Minor updates.
29 NOV 2021	Removed the following statement from VMware High Performance Plug-In and Path Selection Schemes: "Do not activate the HPP for HDDs or slower flash devices. The HPP is not expected to provide any performance benefits with devices incapable of at least 200 000 IOPS."
17 NOV 2021	Minor updates.
29 OCT 2021	Minor updates.
21 OCT 2021	Updated Configuring Network Access to vSAN File Share to indicate that using a dedicated vNIC for the file traffic is not mandatory.
05 OCT 2021	Initial release.