Release Notes

Issue Description

DSM-11945 Even after unregistering VASA, powered-o VMs are accessible and VVol datastores are active. If you

try to power on the VMs or create a new VM, vCenter eventually discovers that the VASA Provider is

not present and it marks the VVol datastores as inactive.

Workaround: None

DSM-9825 If you create a storage container in Dell Storage Manager, and then create a datastore from vCenter,

there could be a delay before the VASA Provider detects the datastore.

Workaround: Dell recommends that you create VVol datastores from Dell Storage Manager. This task

creates the storage container on the Storage Center and the datastore on vCenter in one operation. If

you want to create the storage container in Dell Storage Manager, and then create the datastore from

vCenter, you will need to wait 1-2 minutes after creating the storage container in

Dell Storage Manager

before it is visible in vCenter. After the new storage container is visible in vCenter, the VVol datastore

can be created.

Notes and Limitations

This section contains information important to this release of Storage Manager 2018 R1.

Limitations For Unisphere

The following features are not currently available for Unisphere in Storage Manager 2018 R1.

• Chargeback

• Disaster recovery

• FluidFS management

• Initial Storage Center setup and conguration

• Live Volume and Live Migrate

• Managed servers

• Replication

• Reporting

• PS Series Group management

• Threshold alerts

• VVols

Dell Storage Manager Scalability

To optimize performance and prevent connectivity issues, Dell EMC recommends that one Data Collector manages no more than ten

Storage Centers. A Data Collector may exceed that recommendation depending on the network latency, I/O load and number of volumes.

Support Resources

The following section provides resources for nding more information on using Storage Manager.