https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Netapp-VSC-General-Question/m-p/164008#M37528 <P>For traditional datastores <STRONG>no problem</STRONG>, but with&nbsp;<STRONG>VVOL</STRONG> datastores VSC is a dependency. The VASA provider is hosted in the VSC Virtual Machine. So for VVOL if the VSC is not available you cant provision, modify or power on the VMs.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Mon, 15 Feb 2021 18:03:37 GMT jcolonfzenpr 2021-02-15T18:03:37Z https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Netapp-VSC-General-Question/m-p/164007#M37527 <P>Hi All<BR /><BR />Can i ask a general question re data stores created using the VSC console.<BR /><BR />If the VSC is off do the VMware hosts lose access to the mapped data stores?<BR /><BR />Thank you</P> Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:34:58 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Netapp-VSC-General-Question/m-p/164007#M37527 aimp 2025-06-04T10:34:58Z https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Netapp-VSC-General-Question/m-p/164008#M37528 <P>For traditional datastores <STRONG>no problem</STRONG>, but with&nbsp;<STRONG>VVOL</STRONG> datastores VSC is a dependency. The VASA provider is hosted in the VSC Virtual Machine. So for VVOL if the VSC is not available you cant provision, modify or power on the VMs.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Mon, 15 Feb 2021 18:03:37 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Netapp-VSC-General-Question/m-p/164008#M37528 jcolonfzenpr 2021-02-15T18:03:37Z