topic VSC 5.0 Question in VMware Solutions Discussions https://community.netapp.com/t5/VMware-Solutions-Discussions/VSC-5-0-Question/m-p/35656#M3497 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Our VMware datastores are NFS volumes, and we have several VMs w/ a high amount of misaligned IO.&nbsp; I read a lot about VSC 5.0 and it's ability to correct misaligned IO on VMFS datastores, but wasn't sure what my options would be on NFS datastores.</P><P></P><P>Does anyone have any experience with this?</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:30:24 GMT JBIDDLE2212 2025-06-05T05:30:24Z VSC 5.0 Question https://community.netapp.com/t5/VMware-Solutions-Discussions/VSC-5-0-Question/m-p/35656#M3497 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Our VMware datastores are NFS volumes, and we have several VMs w/ a high amount of misaligned IO.&nbsp; I read a lot about VSC 5.0 and it's ability to correct misaligned IO on VMFS datastores, but wasn't sure what my options would be on NFS datastores.</P><P></P><P>Does anyone have any experience with this?</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:30:24 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/VMware-Solutions-Discussions/VSC-5-0-Question/m-p/35656#M3497 JBIDDLE2212 2025-06-05T05:30:24Z Re: VSC 5.0 Question https://community.netapp.com/t5/VMware-Solutions-Discussions/VSC-5-0-Question/m-p/35659#M3498 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>VSC 5.0 Install and Admin Guide:</P><P>For NFS datastores, the storage system must be running Data ONTAP 8.1.3 or later.</P><P></P><P>just for clarification:</P><P>it does NOT fix the misalignment of the VMDKs itself. what it does is create a new datastore which is also "misaligned" by the same offset.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 20 Aug 2014 09:39:16 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/VMware-Solutions-Discussions/VSC-5-0-Question/m-p/35659#M3498 DOMINIC_WYSS 2014-08-20T09:39:16Z