Chapter 14. Storage Setup

CloudStack is designed to work with a wide variety of commodity and enterprise-grade storage. Local disk may be used as well, if supported by the selected hypervisor. Storage type support for guest virtual disks differs based on hypervisor selection.

	XenServer	vSphere	KVM
NFS	Supported	Supported	Supported
iSCSI	Supported	Supported via VMFS	Supported via Clustered Filesystems
Fiber Channel	Supported via Pre-existing SR	Supported	Supported via Clustered Filesystems
Local Disk	Supported	Supported	Supported

The use of the Cluster Logical Volume Manager (CLVM) for KVM is not officially supported with CloudStack.