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VSC for VMware vSphere behaves differently if SVMs connect directly or use cluster management LIFs

Virtual Storage Console for VMware vSphere supports connecting a storage system directly to either a Storage Virtual Machine (SVM) or to a cluster management LIF. When the storage connects directly to an SVM, not all of the VSC features are supported. To use all of the features, you must connect the storage to a cluster management LIF.

In addition, if you have a VSC environment that supports SnapCenter, you must use the VSC GUI to add the SVMs to VSC as clusters. Otherwise, you will not be able to use all the VSC features.

Note: SnapCenter only performs backups on SVMs, and it requires that the SVMs use direct connections. Using the SnapCenter GUI to add the SVMs as direct connections and the VSC GUI to add the same SVMs as clusters enables you to work around this issue.

VSC supports the following features when the storage system connects to a cluster management LIF. However, VSC does not support these features when the storage system connects directly to an SVM: