VMworld 2018, Tech-Previewing the .Next VSI Plugin
VMworld 2018 is taking place this week and amongst the many announcement, I want to also talk a little bit about something that will come out soon, our vCenter (Virtual […]
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VMworld 2018 is taking place this week and amongst the many announcement, I want to also talk a little bit about something that will come out soon, our vCenter (Virtual […]
VMworld 2018 is taking place this week and amongst the many announcement, I want to also talk a little bit about something that will come out soon, our vCenter (Virtual Storage Integrator or ‘VSI’ in short) has been our premier plugin to manage your
Dell EMC storage arrays, Virtual Storage Integrator (VSI) is a plug-in for VMware vCenter. It enables administrators to view, manage, and optimize storage for VMware ESX/ESXi servers and hosts, and then map that storage to the hosts.
VSI 8.0 consists of:
VSI Administration
Managing Host Best Practices for XtremIO
Deploying VSI
One of the biggest changes we are making to VSI 8.X is ease of deployment which means that during it’s OVA deployment, you just need to give it some IP settings and the vCenter credentials and off you go, no need to login to the appliance via a special port and do it from there as well…yep, that’s a big request that came from you, our customers and partners so now, it’s a completely different ballgame where it comes to deployment.
Once the OVA has been deployed, you can check that the plugin is registered in vCenter, under ‘Menu’-> Dell EMC VSI
You can also verify the plugin status and version via the ‘Administration’ Tab -> ‘Client Plug-Ins’
Note that you must register an array using a user with admin privileges
Click Next
That’s it for now, as we get to the release date, I will publish another post showing all the features and how to work with them
P.S
I made a reference to the fact the VSI SIS has been replaced by IAPI (Integrations API), more on that later on..
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