sidebar	permalink	keywords	summary
sidebar	virtualization/vsphere_ontap_auto_block.html	vSphere, datastore, VMFS, FC, NVMe/FC, iSER, iSCSI, FCoE,SAN, ONTAP tools	This page provides steps to deploy a NetApp ONTAP storage iSCSI VMFS datastore in a VMware vSphere environment.

vSphere traditional block storage provisioning with ONTAP

VMware vSphere supports the following VMFS datastore options with ONTAP SAN protocol support indicated.

VMFS datastore options	ONTAP SAN protocol support
Fibre Channel (FC)	yes
Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)	yes
iSCSI	yes
iSCSI Extensions for RDMA (iSER)	no
NVMe over Fabric with FC (NVMe/FC)	yes
NVMe over Fabric with RDMA over Converged Ethernet (NVMe/RoCE)	no

Note	If iSER or NVMe/RoCE VMFS is required, check SANtricity-based storage systems.

Provide feedback