vSphere Virtual Volumes and Shared Virtual Disks

Virtual Volumes support shared virtual disks that can be used with such clustering software as Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC). Starting with vSphere 8.0 Update 2, Virtual Volumes support the hot extension functionality for shared virtual disks on the Virtual Volumes datastore. With this functionality, you can increase the size of a shared disk without bringing the cluster down.

To learn more about the support Virtual Volumes provide to shared disks with WSFC, see the following information:

VMware vSphere^® Virtual Volumes Support for WSFC
Virtual Volumes (vVols) now supports WSFC
vVols and Microsoft WSFC

For information about setting up and extending the shared virtual disk on the Virtual Volumes datastore, see Add Hard Disks to the First Node of a WSFC Across Physical Hosts with vVols.