SnapDrive for Windows provides LUN provisioning and Snapshot copy management support with VMware ESX 3.0.2 or later guest OS on x86, and x64 platforms when using either the Microsoft iSCSI Software Initiator 2.04 or later, FC HBAs, or ESX iSCSI software initiators or iSCSI HBAs.
SnapDrive supports the following VMware guest OS configurations:
- Windows Server 2008 and 2012, on x86 and x64 platforms
- Microsoft cluster configurations up to a maximum of eight nodes supported on VMware when using the Microsoft iSCSI Software Initiator, or up to two nodes using FC
- A maximum of 56 RDM LUNs with four LSI Logic SCSI controllers for normal RDMS; 48 RDM LUNs with three LSI Logic SCSI controllers on VMware VM MSCS box-to-box SnapDrive for Windows configuration
- Paravirtual SCSI (PVSCSI) adapters, with some additional requirements:
- PVSCSI adapters require ESX/ESXi 4.0 or later.
- The PVSCSI controller must exist before the LUN is created.