Itzikr's Blog

Hi,

We have just released the 7.1 version of our vSphere vCenter plugin, if you are new to the VSI plugin, I highly suggest you start with these posts here

https://volumes.blog/2015/09/21/vsi-6-6-3-is-here-grab-it-while-its-hot/

https://volumes.blog/2016/03/31/vsi-6-8-is-here-heres-whats-new/

https://volumes.blog/2016/10/04/vsi-7-0-is-here-vplex-is-included/

VSI enables VMware administrators to provision and manage the following EMC storage systems for VMware ESX/ESXi hosts:

• EMC Unity™
• EMC UnityVSA™
• EMC ViPR® software-defined storage
• EMC VMAX All Flash
• EMC VMAX3™
• EMC eNAS storage
• EMC VNX® series storage
• EMC VNXe1600™ and VNXe3200™ storage
• EMC VPLEX® systems
• EMC XtremIO® storage

Tasks that administrators can perform with VSI include storage provisioning, storage mapping, viewing information such as capacity utilization, and managing data protection systems. This release also supports EMC AppSync®, EMC RecoverPoint®, and EMC PowerPath®/VE.

New features and Changes

This release of VSI includes support for the following:

• VMware vSphere Web Client version 6.5 tolerance
• Multiple vCenter server IP addresses

• Restoring deleted virtual machines or datastores using AppSync software

• Space reclamation with no requirement to provide the ESXi host credential (vSphere Web Client 6.0 or later)

• Viewing storage capacity metrics when provisioning VMFS datastores on EMC XtremIO storage systems

• Enabling and disabling inline compression when creating VMFS datastores on EMC Unity storage systems version 4.1.0 or later
• Space reclamation on Unity storage systems
• Extending Unity VVol datastores
• Viewing and deleting scheduled tasks, such as space reclamation, from the VSI plug-in
• Enabling and disabling compression on NFS datastores on VMAX All Flash/VMAX3 eNAS devices
• Viewing the compression property of a storage group when provisioning VMFS datastores on VMAX All Flash storage systems
• Path management on Unity storage arrays using VMware NMP and EMC
• PowerPath/VE version 6.1 or later

you can download VSI 7.1 from here https://download.emc.com/downloads/DL82021_VSI_for_VMware_vSphere_Web_Client_7.1.ova?source=OLS