User guide

vCenters
You can use the vCenters tab (Admin > Physical Assets > vCenters) to add a vCenter to
ViPR which storage can be exported and mounted as a datastore.
Adding a vCenter server
Add a vCenter Server to make provisioned volumes available to ESX hosts. You can add a
vCenter from the Admin view's Physical Asset tab.
Before you begin
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This operation requires the System Administrator role in ViPR.
Procedure
1. Select Admin > Physical Assets > vCenters.
2. Add.
3. Enter the vCenter Server's name, its hostname or IP address, port used for
communication between the ViPR virtual appliance and the vCenter server, and
credentials for an account that has administrator privileges. Optionally validate the
connection on save.
Use care when identifying the vCenter; the UI does not prevent you from adding the
same vCenter twice: once with its hostname, and again with its IP address.
4. Check the status of the Validate Connection on Save checkbox.
If you leave this box checked, ViPR will check that it can connect to the host before
saving the host details. If validation fails you will not be allowed to save the host
details.
If some of the information, such as the user credentials, are incorrect, but you still
want to save the information you have entered, uncheck the box. The host will fail
discovery, however, you can edit the host details later and, once corrected, it will be
successfully discovered.
5. Save.
Virtual arrays
A virtual array is an abstract or logical array that is created to partition a virtual data
center into a group of connected compute, network, and storage resources.
In ViPR, a virtual array is created by giving it a meaningful name and defining whether
SAN zoning for the virtual array will be done automatically by ViPR or be manually
configured. Once the virtual array is created, it must be populated with at least one
network and one virtual pool.
A network consists of the storage ports and the host or initiator ports connected to the
SAN switches that were added to ViPR as fabric managers. The assignment of the network
to the virtual array, and the subsequent association of the virtual array with a virtual pool,
determines the storage that is available when a user requests a provisioning service.
Optionally, the devices available to a virtual array can be controlled by manually selecting
the storage ports to make available to the virtual array, and the physical storage pools
that will supply the storage for the virtual pools associated with the virtual array.
Initial Configuration of ViPR Virtual Appliance
52 EMC ViPR 1.1.0 Installation and Configuration Guide