This article provides information about support for the deployment of EMC ScaleIO versions 1.32 and 2.0 in ESXi 5.5, 6.0 and 6.5 environments. ScaleIO is fully supported in systems deploying the VMware configurations described below.
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ScaleIO
Dell EMC ScaleIO is a software-only server-based storage area network (SAN) that converges storage and compute resources to form a hyper-converged, enterprise-grade storage product. ScaleIO storage is elastic and delivers linearly scalable performance. Its scale-out server SAN architecture can grow from a few to thousands of servers.
Minimum requirements
ESXi 5.5, 6.0 | ScaleIO versions 1.32, 2.0, 2.0, 2.0.0.1, 2.0.0.2, 2.0.0.3, 2.0.1, 2.0.1.1, 2.0.1.2 |
ESXi 6.5 | ScaleIO version 2.0.1.3, 2.0.1.4, 2.5 |
The ScaleIO hyper-converged configuration consists of a dedicated ScaleIO Virtual Machine (SVM) and three software components:
Figure 1: ScaleIO implementation in ESXi with SDC in VMkernel.
Recommendations and limitations
ScaleIO offers a vSphere plug-in for easy installation and deployment in VMware ESXi environments. It is recommended to use ScaleIO vSphere plug-in for the deployment and provisioning process. The ScaleIO plug-in for vSphere enables you to perform all the ScaleIO activities in a simple and efficient manner for all the ESXi nodes in vCenter Server. The plug-in can be used for provisioning ScaleIO nodes and on an existing ScaleIO cluster adding additional SDS nodes.