How to check VAAI for XtremIO

How to check VAAI for XtremIO

Introduction

This article provides the steps of how to check if the VAAI is enabled from vSphere Client & CLI interface. It also provides several KBs and articles about VAAI and EMC Storage integration for reference.

Detailed Information

VAAI is a feature introduced in ESXi/ESX 4.1 and above that provides hardware acceleration functionality. It enables host to offload specific virtual machine and storage management operations to compliant storage hardware. With the storage hardware assistance, host performs these operations faster and consumes less CPU, memory, and storage fabric bandwidth.

XtremIO provides full integration VAAI for tasks such as blocking zeroing, XCOPY, ATS and unmap. This allows the system to provide array-based, enhanced host offloading of common VMware provisioning tasks. With VAAI integration, XtremIO can provide simplified management of massive data stores and instant cloning of VMs or vApps.

Verify VAAI from vSphere Client:

To verify that VAAI is configured correctly, use vSphere Client to navigate to the host, go to the ‘Configuration’ tab, and then choose ‘Advance Setting’ under the ‘Software’ section.Select the ‘Data Mover’ section and check that the ‘DataMover.Hardware AcceleratedMove’ and the ‘DataMover.HardwareAcceleratedInit’ parameters are both set to “1”.

Select the ‘VMFS3’ section and check that the ‘VMFS3.Hardware.AcceleratedLocking’ parameter is set to “1”. If any of these parameters are set to “0”, set them to “1”