Release Notes

Table of contents
3 Dell EMC SC Series and VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes Best Practices | 3161-BP-SC
Table of contents
Revisions............................................................................................................................................................................. 2
Acknowledgements ............................................................................................................................................................. 2
1 Introduction to Virtual Volumes .................................................................................................................................... 5
2 Site preparation, requirements, and recommendations ............................................................................................... 6
2.1 Requirements ..................................................................................................................................................... 6
2.2 Recommendations .............................................................................................................................................. 6
3 Deployment .................................................................................................................................................................. 8
3.1 Dell Storage Manager and VASA Provider credentials ...................................................................................... 8
3.2 Register VMware vCenter Server in DSM ........................................................................................................ 10
3.3 Register the VASA Provider ............................................................................................................................. 11
3.4 Protocol endpoints ............................................................................................................................................ 12
4 Configuration and management ................................................................................................................................. 13
4.1 Creating and mapping an SC Series array ....................................................................................................... 13
4.2 Changing the Protocol Endpoint Path Selection Policy .................................................................................... 14
4.2.1 vSphere Web Client .......................................................................................................................................... 15
4.2.2 esxcli ................................................................................................................................................................. 16
4.2.3 PowerCLI .......................................................................................................................................................... 17
4.3 Changing the default Path Selection Policy ..................................................................................................... 17
4.3.1 esxcli ................................................................................................................................................................. 17
4.3.2 PowerCLI .......................................................................................................................................................... 18
4.4 Miscellaneous esxcli ......................................................................................................................................... 18
4.5 Storage container expansion ............................................................................................................................ 20
4.6 Update Information in Dell Storage Manager ................................................................................................... 20
4.7 Storage container deletion ................................................................................................................................ 21
4.8 Debugging and logging ..................................................................................................................................... 21
4.8.1 Dell Storage Manager ....................................................................................................................................... 22
4.8.2 vCenter Server .................................................................................................................................................. 22
4.8.3 ESXi .................................................................................................................................................................. 22
5 Storage Policy-Based Management (SPBM) ............................................................................................................. 23
5.1 Capabilities ....................................................................................................................................................... 23
5.2 Creating a VM storage policy ........................................................................................................................... 23
6 Virtual Volume operations .......................................................................................................................................... 24
6.1 Creation ............................................................................................................................................................ 24
6.2 Snapshots ......................................................................................................................................................... 25