Release Notes

Deployment
12 Dell EMC SC Series and VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes Best Practices | 3161-BP-SC
3.4 Protocol endpoints
When servers with a VMware ESXi 6.0 operating system are presented to SC Series arrays, protocol
endpoints are created and presented to each of the vSphere hosts with LUN ID 256 (or next sequentially
available up to 1,023). One protocol endpoint per controller is created per host. SC Series arrays support up
to 50 protocol endpoints per controller. Each vSphere host supports up to 256 protocol endpoints for
environments with multiple arrays hosting Virtual Volumes. The protocol endpoints are detected by the
vSphere hosts as 512 Byte devices but they are not identified by vSphere as protocol endpoints until the
VASA Provider is registered and a Storage Container is created. Protocol endpoints should not be used as
traditional VMFS datastores.
Protocol Endpoints assigned by DSM
Note: Protocol Endpoints and their associated LUN IDs are automatically managed by DSM. Protocol
endpoints may not be manually created or destroyed and their LUN IDs may not be modified.