EMC’s vCenter Plugin

Для тех, кто использует системы хранения от EMC - хорошие новости тут - EMC’s Next-Generation vCenter Plugins.
Вкратце:

• some of our platforms connect directly to the vCenter APIs (Unipshere for midrange block/NAS, Recoverpoint) to provide VM-level awareness directly in their GUIs.
• Our midrange platforms automatically  have all initiators register with them (FLARE 29 and later)
• We have vCenter/ESX API integrated and application-integrated (Exchange/SQL Server/Sharepoint/Oracle) snapshots and remote replication in EMC Replication Manager
• we leverage the vStorage APIs for Data Protection, changed block tracking and vCenter API integration in Avamar 5
• we have extended SRM by providing automated failback capabilities in advance of VMware’s next major Site Recovery Manager release.
• we support the vStorage APIs for Multipathing with EMC PowerPath (adaptive/predictive queue management and automation of every multipathing task)
• we support the vStorage APIs for Array Integration – hardware offloading most common storage tasks (this supported on the FLARE revision announced today, and requires a future vSphere release which enables support in vSphere)

Один раз настроив  подключение плагина к своей СХД:

Создаем LUN прямо из интерфейса клиента vSphere:

То же самое верно и для NFS:

Элементарно сопоставляем хранилище VMFS тому LUN, на котором оно находится, и получаем всю инфу по нему:

Получаем доступ к перекладыванию работы на плечи СХД, обратите внимание на пункт контекстного меню FastClone. В видео наглядно показана его работа.

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