VSI 7.0 Is Here, VPLEX Support Is Included!
Hi, We have just released the 7th version! Of the VSI (Virtual Storage Integrator) vCenter plugin, this release includes VPLEX VIAS Provisioning (and viewing support), yes, its been a feature […]
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Hi, We have just released the 7th version! Of the VSI (Virtual Storage Integrator) vCenter plugin, this release includes VPLEX VIAS Provisioning (and viewing support), yes, its been a feature […]
Hi,
We have just released the 7th version! Of the VSI (Virtual Storage Integrator) vCenter plugin, this release includes
VPLEX VIAS Provisioning Support – Use
Cases
VPLEX Integrated Array Service (VIAS)
Create virtual volumes from pre-defined storage pools on supported arrays. These storage pools are visible to VPLEX through array management providers (AMPs)
Simplify the provisioning, by comparing with the traditional provisioning from storage volumes
VPLEX VIAS Provisioning Support –
Prerequisites
Software Prerequisites
– VMware vSphere 6.0 or 5.5
▪ VMware vSphere Web Client
▪ VMware ESX/ESXi hosts
▪ VMware vCenter Servers (single or linked-mode)
Storage Prerequisites
– VPLEX 5.5/6.0
▪ Only support XtremIO/VMAX3/VNX Block
▪ Storage pool is created on the array
▪ AMP is registered with VPLEX, connectivity status is OK.
VPLEX VIAS Provisioning Support –
Provision VMFS Datastore on Host Level
VPLEX VIAS Provisioning Support –
Provision VMFS Datastore on Cluster Level
VPLEX VIAS Provisioning Support –
Provision VMFS Datastore
VPLEX VIAS Provisioning Support –
Provision VMFS Datastore
VPLEX VIAS Provisioning Support –
Provision VMFS Datastore
Let’s see a demo about how it all works, thanks for Todd Toles who recorded it!
Multiple vCenters Support – Background
VSI 6.7 or Older
– Designed to work with single vCenter
– Multiple vCenters are not supported totally
– More and more customers requested this
capability
VSI 6.8
– XtremIO use cases
VSI 6.9.1 & 6.9.2
– RecoverPoint & SRM use cases
– Unity/UnityVSA use cases
Quality Improvement – Batch
Provisioning Use Case
Customer provisions 30 datastores on a
cluster which has 32 ESXi hosts, the vCenter
will fall into no response
Root Cause: there are huge tasks (e.g.
~900+ “Rescan all HBA” and “Rescan VMFS”
tasks) created in a short time, which
generates a rescan storm and impacts the
vCenter much
What have we done to fix it?
Code changes to optimize the host rescan
operations invoked by VSI
Manually configure the vCenter advanced settings to add “config.vpxd.filter.hostRescanFilter=false”
, which disables the automatic VMFS rescanning on each host (under the same
cluster) when create a new datastore for the cluster. Enable this filter when batch provisioning is done.