Feature Specifications

Below are the complete feature specs of the product components. For corresponding specs of acquired product editions, please check SmartX ECP Spec.

Cluster specification and services
Maximum number of hosts
255
Maximum total capacity of cluster
6 PiB
Maximum available capacity of cluster
2 PiB
Commercial support
✓
Block storage services
Heterogeneous cluster
✓
Cluster online extend/shrink
✓
Generic block storage services
✓
Storage auto-tiering
✓
Volume pinning
✓
All-flash storage
✓
Storage policy (per datastore/volume)
✓
Topology-aware data allocation
✓
VM-location-aware data migration
✓
Silent data corruption detection (block checksum)
✓
Thin provisioning
✓
Space reclamation of thin provisioned volumes
✓
Concurrent access of shared volume
✓
Storage volume QoS settings
✓
Redundancy policy
Replication, Erasure coding
Tunable replication factor
2, 3
Increase number of replicas
✓
Encryption at rest
AES 256、SM4
Native KMS
✓
Volume Recycle Bin
✓
SCVM I/O redirection1
✓
Adjustable rate of data recovery and migration2
✓
RDMA storage netwrok with HA cross NIC
✓
Virtualization platforms
ELF (Built-in virtualization platform)
✓
VMware ESXi
✓
Citrix XenServer
✓
Built-in VM services
Boost mode
✓
VM lifecycle management
✓
VM autostart with host
✓
VM online setting
✓
VNC console
✓
VM HA
✓
VM hot migration
✓
VM cold migration
✓
VM staged migration
✓
VM import and export
✓
VM CPU compatibility
✓
VM CPU exclusive
✓
NUMA optimization
✓
VM CPU QoS settings
✓
VM file system partition usage
✓
VM uptime
✓
VM group
✓
VM template
✓
VM template import and export
✓
VM instant snapshot
✓
VM instant/full clone
✓
Resource-aware VM auto migration
✓
Rule of placement group3
✓
Dynamic Resource Scheduler
✓
User-defined VM placement
✓
Data storage policy
✓
ISO management
✓
Virtual volume import and export
✓
VM/Virtual volume I/O QoS settings
✓
Virtual NIC QoS settings
✓
VM Tools
✓
VM list export
✓
USB device passthrough
✓
PCI passthrough
✓
SR-IOV NIC passthrough with HA
✓
Encryption controller passthrough
✓
GPU passthrough
✓
vGPU with HA
✓
Networking
Virtual distributed switch
✓
VLAN-based VM network
✓
VLAN with access or trunk port
✓
Create multiple types of networks on one VDS
✓
Network traffic QoS
✓
Virtual network MTU modification
✓
NIC MTU modification
✓
NIC LLDP information
✓
NIC physical link status
✓
API & CLI
RESTful API
✓
API documentation
✓
CLI
✓
Snapshot Plan
Custom protected VMs
✓
Custom execution and retention policies
✓
MetroX (Active-Active Clustering)
Separate license required
Availability zone
✓
Automated disaster recovery for VM/application services
VM HA across availability zones