So after USM is installed, start the vSphere Client (can’t install VSI with the Client open) and navigate to Home > Solutions and Applications > EMC VSI:Ĭlicking on the icon will bring up the VSI management screen. If all the above is true, time to provision! The first thing we need to do is add our VPLEX to the Storage Systems within USM so we can use it in provisioning. Each ESXi host that will access storage is configured in a storage view.Network connectivity exists between one or more storage processors and ESXi servers.One or more initiator groups are created.One or more unclaimed or claimed volumes are available.Ability to attach to the management server as the user “service”.Local, Metro Cluster with the following characteristics: VSI Unified Storage Management feature version 5.6 installed on the host on which you use the vSphere Client (no VSI web client support in this version).Let’s start with the requirements for VPLEX provisioning: So we’ll take it as read (see bottom for link if needed), and move right on to the VPLEX provisioning. Besides the much anticipated (and long awaited) striped meta capability in Unified Storage Management (USM) 5.6 for VMAX, there is now VPLEX provisioning! For those of us who use VPLEX with VMware this simplifies the creation of datastores on VPLEX.Īs Cody has already covered the introduction to VSI 5.6, I am not going to rehash it here.
I’m (Drew Tonnesen, back for another guest post, this time continuing Cody’s theme of VSI 5.6.