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preference for accessing / using / the vCenter Client, all will allow you to

achieve the same result, and are all based on ease of use and comfort with the

tools.

To launch the VSM GUI to manage and monitor your Smart Copies click on the

Dell EqualLogic Virtual Storage Manager icon on the Home screen of the

vCenter Client under Solutions and Applications.

This will launch a login dialogue box. You will need to log into VSM with

credentials that have vCenter administrative access.

NOTE: Java is required to be installed on the machine used to launch the VSM

GUI.

Once you are logged in you are presented with the VSM Main screen GUI.

From this screen you can launch all of the views within VSM; manage and

monitor your datastores, Smart Copies, replicas and more. For this technical

report we are going to focus on local virtual machine data protection with