Users Guide

1 Getting Started............................................................................................................................ 7
Introduction to vSphere Web Client Plugin........................................................................................................................ 7
Key Features.....................................................................................................................................................................7
Requirements for the vSphere Web Client Plugin.......................................................................................................7
Configuring Dell Storage vSphere Web Client Plugin....................................................................................................... 8
VASA Provider....................................................................................................................................................................... 9
Registering VASA provider............................................................................................................................................. 9
Unregistering VASA provider........................................................................................................................................10
Managing the vSphere Web Client Plugin......................................................................................................................... 11
Changing vCenter and Dell Storage Manager Credentials........................................................................................ 11
Displaying Storage Center Information..............................................................................................................................12
Display Storage Center Information.............................................................................................................................12
Display Dell Storage Monitoring Information...............................................................................................................14
Disabling and Enabling the vSphere Web Client Plugin................................................................................................... 17
2 Working With Dell Storage...........................................................................................................18
Introduction to Dell Storage................................................................................................................................................18
Creating and Managing VMFS Datastores and Raw Device Mappings on Storage Centers.................................... 19
Adding a VMFS Datastore ........................................................................................................................................... 19
Editing Volume Settings................................................................................................................................................22
Adding an RDM to a Virtual Machine .........................................................................................................................23
Resizing a Datastore or RDM ......................................................................................................................................25
Removing a Datastore or RDM ...................................................................................................................................25
Configuring, Creating, and Recovering Snapshots......................................................................................................... 26
Configuring Data Instant Snapshot ............................................................................................................................26
Creating a Snapshot......................................................................................................................................................27
Deleting a Snapshot...................................................................................................................................................... 28
Recovering Data From a Snapshot............................................................................................................................. 29
Create and Manage Replications and Live Volumes.......................................................................................................30
Replication Operations..................................................................................................................................................30
Live Volume Operations................................................................................................................................................33
3 Working With Virtual Machines....................................................................................................39
Creating Virtual Machines.................................................................................................................................................. 39
Deploy Virtual Machines to an Existing VMFS Datastore........................................................................................ 39
Deploy Virtual Machines to a New VMFS Datastore................................................................................................40
Clone a Virtual Machine.......................................................................................................................................................41
Recovering a Virtual Machine From a Snapshot............................................................................................................. 42
Recovering Virtual Machine Data From a Snapshot................................................................................................. 42
4 Managing Disaster Recovery....................................................................................................... 43
Activate Disaster Recovery................................................................................................................................................43
Restore/Start Disaster Recovery......................................................................................................................................44
Predefine Disaster Recovery..............................................................................................................................................44
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