Users Guide

Installing the SAS provider upgrade of ESXi ................................................................................ 26
Configuring ESXi hosts to Storage Arrays.......................................................................................... 26
Configure ESXi Host to Storage Array wizard...............................................................................27
5 MD vCenter Plug-in manager...........................................................................31
MD vCenter Plug-in features.............................................................................................................. 31
6 Storage Arrays Objects view.............................................................................33
Storage Arrays Objects view............................................................................................................... 33
Add Storage Array............................................................................................................................... 34
Discover Storage Arrays......................................................................................................................34
Collect Support Bundle.......................................................................................................................35
Edit Storage Array................................................................................................................................36
Remove Storage Arrays.......................................................................................................................36
Saving the storage array configuration.............................................................................................. 37
Enabling automatic save configuration backups.........................................................................38
Manually Save Configuration........................................................................................................38
View Event Log....................................................................................................................................39
7 Selected Storage Array Summary tab............................................................. 40
Summary view general information...................................................................................................40
Recovery Guru information................................................................................................................ 41
8 Selected storage array Manage tab.................................................................43
Virtual Disks view features ................................................................................................................. 43
Create Disk Group.........................................................................................................................44
Create Disk Pool............................................................................................................................45
Create Virtual Disks....................................................................................................................... 45
Legacy Snapshots..........................................................................................................................47
Redistribute Virtual Disk................................................................................................................48
Rename..........................................................................................................................................49
Disable Data Assurance.................................................................................................................49
Delete............................................................................................................................................ 49
Delete Multiple Virtual Disks......................................................................................................... 49
Mappings view features...................................................................................................................... 50
Add Mapping..................................................................................................................................51
Rescan Storage Adapters.............................................................................................................. 52
Add Host........................................................................................................................................ 53
Add Host Group.............................................................................................................................54
Rename..........................................................................................................................................55
Remove..........................................................................................................................................55
Virtual Disk Copy view features.......................................................................................................... 55
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