Administrator Guide

Contents
About this Guide...............................................................................................................................................6
Revision History..................................................................................................................................................................6
Audience..............................................................................................................................................................................6
Related Publications...........................................................................................................................................................6
Contacting Dell................................................................................................................................................................... 6
1 Getting Started.............................................................................................................................................. 7
Introduction to vSphere Web Client Plugin..................................................................................................................... 7
Key Features................................................................................................................................................................. 7
Requirements for the vSphere Web Client Plugin....................................................................................................7
Conguring Dell Storage vSphere Web Client Plugin.................................................................................................... 8
VASA Provider.................................................................................................................................................................... 9
Registering VASA provider........................................................................................................................................ 10
Unregistering VASA provider.....................................................................................................................................10
Managing the vSphere Web Client Plugin.....................................................................................................................12
Changing vCenter and Storage Manager Credentials........................................................................................... 12
Displaying Storage Center and FluidFS Information..................................................................................................... 13
Display Dell Storage Summary Information..............................................................................................................13
Display Dell Storage Monitoring Information........................................................................................................... 15
Disabling and Enabling the vSphere Web Client Plugin................................................................................................18
2 Working With Dell Storage........................................................................................................................... 19
Introduction to Dell Storage.............................................................................................................................................19
Creating and Managing VMFS Datastores and Raw Device Mappings on Storage Centers..................................21
Adding a VMFS Datastore ........................................................................................................................................21
Editing Volume Settings............................................................................................................................................ 24
Adding an RDM to a Virtual Machine ..................................................................................................................... 24
Resizing a Datastore or RDM .................................................................................................................................. 26
Removing a Datastore or RDM ................................................................................................................................27
Creating and Managing NFS Datastores.......................................................................................................................28
Create a New NFS Datastore...................................................................................................................................28
Add an NFS Datasore Using an Existing NFS Export............................................................................................29
Remove NFS Datastores...........................................................................................................................................30
Conguring, Creating, and Recovering Snapshots......................................................................................................30
Conguring Data Instant Snapshot......................................................................................................................... 30
Creating a Snapshot...................................................................................................................................................31
Deleting a Snapshot...................................................................................................................................................32
Recovering Data From a Snapshot..........................................................................................................................33
Creating and Managing FluidFS NAS Volume Snapshots and Snapshot Schedules...............................................34
About FluidFS NAS Volume Snapshots...................................................................................................................34
About FluidFS NAS Volume Snapshot Schedules..................................................................................................34
NAS Volume Snapshots and Snapshot Schedules................................................................................................ 35
Viewing NAS Volume Snapshots and Schedules................................................................................................... 36
Managing NAS Volume Snapshots and Snapshot Schedules.............................................................................. 37
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