The Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance Plug-in for VMware vSphere Storage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI) for network attached storage (NAS) offloads common virtual machine operations to the storage hardware in order to free up resources on VMware ESXi servers as well as network bandwidth. This plug-in product has been designed to accelerate VM disk file copy operations on Oracle ZFS Storage Appliances in vSphere environments. The plug-in is packaged as software that is distributed as a VMware installation bundle (VIB).
For the latest version of this plug-in, including full documentation with installation and administration information, see the Oracle Technology Network (OTN) page: Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance Plug-in Downloads (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/sun-unified-storage/downloads/zfssa-plugins-1489830.html).