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Dell MD Storage Array vCenter Plug-in User's Guide

Dell MD Storage Array vCenter Plug-in | 10 Figure 4. Add New Role Window 4 In the Name text box, type the name of the new role. 5

Dell MD Storage Array vCenter Plug-in | 11 Adding a User ID to a Role 1. From the Home screen, select Hosts and Clusters and then se

Dell MD Storage Array vCenter Plug-in | 12 No Access If users are not members of a role that has either the Read Only or Read Write S

Dell MD Storage Array vCenter Plug-in | 13 Creating a New User Login 1 Connect the vCenter client directly to the ESX/ESXi host to b

Dell MD Storage Array vCenter Plug-in | 14 vCenter Plug-in Security Accepting and Installing the Trusted SSL Certificate The vCenter

Dell MD Storage Array vCenter Plug-in | 15 Figure 8. Install Certificate Dialog Box 3 Click Next from the Certificate Import Wizar

Dell MD Storage Array vCenter Plug-in | 16 4 Select the Place all certificates in the following store radio button 5 Click Browse 6 H

Dell MD Storage Array vCenter Plug-in | 17 7 Click OK 8 Click Next 9 Click Finish 10 A Security Warning message box will be displaye

Dell MD Storage Array vCenter Plug-in | 18 Enhanced IE Security When Microsoft's Enhanced IE Security is installed on the vSpher

Dell MD Storage Array vCenter Plug-in | 19 3 Dell MD Storage vCenter Plug-in Features vCenter Plug-in Features The following vCente

Notes and Cautions NOTE: A NOTE indicates important information that helps you make better use of your computer CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates potenti

Dell MD Storage Array vCenter Plug-in | 20 Clicking the icon will open the Storage Array Manager view where you can manage Dell stora

Dell MD Storage Array vCenter Plug-in | 21 Removing a Storage array 1 In the vSphere Client Storage array Manager View, click Remove

Dell MD Storage Array vCenter Plug-in | 22 5 Click OK to enable automatic configuration backups. Figure 16. Automatic Save Configura

Dell MD Storage Array vCenter Plug-in | 23 4 Click OK Internet Explorer will launch a File Download dialog box. See Figure 18. Figu

Dell MD Storage Array vCenter Plug-in | 24 4 ESX Host SAN Configuration This vCenter Plug-in allows for an ESX host to be automatic

Dell MD Storage Array vCenter Plug-in | 25 This example shows a fully redundant fabric configuration. If an FC switch or HBA fails,

Dell MD Storage Array vCenter Plug-in | 26 Figure 22. Double Failure This method works well to maintain the in-case of a hardware f

Dell MD Storage Array vCenter Plug-in | 27 Figure 23. Quad HBA Port Configuration NOTE: The intent of this configuration is to pa

Dell MD Storage Array vCenter Plug-in | 28 Figure 24 shows how an 8 port HBA configuration can be configured. Figure 24. 8 HBA Port

Dell MD Storage Array vCenter Plug-in | 29 5 ESX Host Configuration Wizard To use the Automatic Host Configuration utility, navigat

Contents | 3 Contents Dell MD Storage Array vCenter Plug-in Overview ...

Dell MD Storage Array vCenter Plug-in | 30 This launches the Configure ESX Host to Storage Array wizard. See Figure 26. From this wiz

Dell MD Storage Array vCenter Plug-in | 31 Figure 27. iSCSI Configure ESX Host to Storage Array View Figure 28. SAS Configure ES

Dell MD Storage Array vCenter Plug-in | 32 NOTE: To detect the SAS HBA addresses, the LSI SAS SMI-S provider must be upgraded to the

Dell MD Storage Array vCenter Plug-in | 33 Storage Array Summary Clicking on a storage array from the array manager view displays a

Dell MD Storage Array vCenter Plug-in | 34 Create Disk Group Selecting the Virtual Disks tab shows a logical view that displays how s

Dell MD Storage Array vCenter Plug-in | 35 Figure 32. Create Disk Group Dialog Box Formatting Virtual Disks Before you format virt

Dell MD Storage Array vCenter Plug-in | 36 Decision-Making Schemes When the storage characterization for a virtual machine is not ava

Dell MD Storage Array vCenter Plug-in | 37 Creating a Virtual Disk After a new disk group was created, you can create new virtual di

Dell MD Storage Array vCenter Plug-in | 38 Figure 34. Create Snapshot Dialog Box 2 Change one or more of the snapshot attributes: 

Dell MD Storage Array vCenter Plug-in | 39 Creating a Virtual Disk Copy When the Virtual Disk Copy premium feature is enabled on a s

Contents | 4 Formatting Virtual Disks ...

Dell MD Storage Array vCenter Plug-in | 40 Figure 36. Create Virtual Disk Copy Dialog Box 1 Click Next to select the target virtual

Dell MD Storage Array vCenter Plug-in | 41 After the virtual disk copy is established, it can be managed from the Virtual Disk Copy

Dell MD Storage Array vCenter Plug-in | 42 Figure 39. Remote Replication Confirmation Dialog Box

Dell MD Storage Array vCenter Plug-in | 43 Mapping a Virtual Disk After creating new virtual disks, use the Mappings tab to present

Dell MD Storage Array vCenter Plug-in | 44 Figure 41. Storage Adapters Rescan From this view, the user can also verify that the cor

Dell MD Storage Array vCenter Plug-in | 45 Datastores View After datastores are created on storage array virtual disks, the Datastor

Dell MD Storage Array vCenter Plug-in | 46 Figure 44. Event Log Viewer Manually Unregistering the vCenter Plug-in If the vCenter Pl

Dell MD Storage Array vCenter Plug-in | 47 Figure 45. Manual Unregister Extension Uninstall the vCenter Plug-in The vCenter Plug-i

Dell MD Storage Array vCenter Plug-in | 48 6 Troubleshooting vCenter Plug-in Issues This section describes how to open an

Dell MD Storage Array vCenter Plug-in | 49 2 Verify that the cimserver/Pegasus server service is started on the application server.

Dell MD Storage Array vCenter Plug-in | 5 1 Dell MD Storage Array vCenter Plug-in Overview The Dell MD Storage Array vCenter Manage

Dell MD Storage Array vCenter Plug-in | 50 The vCenter Plug-in Displays Incorrect Error Messages Incorrect error codes mig

Dell MD Storage Array vCenter Plug-in | 51 7 Getting Help Contacting Dell For customers in the United States, call 800-WWW-DELL (80

Dell MD Storage Array vCenter Plug-in | 6 Installation Prerequisites To install and use the vCenter Plug-in, the following prerequisi

Dell MD Storage Array vCenter Plug-in | 7 Table 1. Configuration Worksheet Example vCenter Server Names VCENTER-4 DNS Names IP Addr

Dell MD Storage Array vCenter Plug-in | 8 2 Configuring the Application Server and the vCenter Plug-In After the application server

Dell MD Storage Array vCenter Plug-in | 9 Configuring Storage Administrator Roles By default, all defined vCenter user IDs have no r