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<!DOCTYPE section PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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<!ENTITY % BOOK_ENTITIES SYSTEM "Release_Notes.ent">
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%BOOK_ENTITIES;
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]>
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<section id="about-primary-storage" lang="en-US">
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<!-- Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
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or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
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distributed with this work for additional information
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regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
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to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
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"License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
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with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
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http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
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software distributed under the License is distributed on an
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"AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
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KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
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specific language governing permissions and limitations
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under the License.
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--> <title>About Primary Storage</title>
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<para>
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Primary storage is associated with a cluster, and it stores the disk volumes for all the VMs running on hosts in that cluster. You can add multiple primary storage servers to a cluster. At least one is required. It is typically located close to the hosts for increased performance.
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</para>
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<para>
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&PRODUCT; is designed to work with all standards-compliant iSCSI and NFS servers that are supported by the underlying hypervisor, including, for example:
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</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Dell EqualLogic™ for iSCSI
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Network Appliances filers for NFS and iSCSI
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Scale Computing for NFS
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<para>
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If you intend to use only local disk for your installation, you can skip to Add Secondary Storage.
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</para>
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</section>
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