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Virtual Storage Console, VASA Provider, and Storage Replication Adapter for VMware® vSphere Administration Guide

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  • Deciding whether to use this guide
    You can use this guide to quickly find information about tasks involving provisioning and optimizing storage and monitoring datastores and virtual machines.
  • Workflow for configuring the virtual appliance for VSC, VASA Provider, and SRA
    Configuring the virtual machine for VSC, VASA Provider, and SRA involves configuring your storage systems, creating a storage capability profile, provisioning the datastore, and optionally configuring SRA for disaster recovery.
  • Configuring storage systems for VSC, VASA Provider, and SRA
    You should add storage systems to the virtual appliance and set default credentials, if required, by using the VSC interface.
  • Creating storage capability profiles
    VASA Provider for ONTAP allows you to create storage capability profiles and map them to your storage. This helps you maintain consistency across the storage. You can also use VASA Provider to check for compliance between the storage and the storage capability profiles.
  • Configuring traditional datastores and virtual machines
    You can use Virtual Storage Console (VSC) to configure datastores and virtual machines in your vCenter Server. The datastores and virtual machines that are provisioned by VSC are displayed on the dashboard of VSC. This enables you to easily monitor and manage these datastores and virtual machines.
  • Configuring vVols datastores
    You can use VASA Provider for ONTAP to create and manage VMware Virtual Volumes (vVols). You can provision, edit, mount, and delete a vVols datastore. You can also add storage to the vVols datastore or remove storage from the vVols datastore. to provide greater flexibility. You can provision and manage every virtual machine and the related VMDK.
  • Managing disaster recovery setup by using Storage Replication Adapter
    You can create and manage the disaster recovery setup in your vCenter Server by using Storage Replication Adapter (SRA).
  • Managing traditional and vVols datastores
    You can use the VSC interface to manage both traditional and VMware Virtual Volumes (vVols) datastores and perform mount, resize, edit, and remove datastore operations.
  • Understanding Virtual Storage Console reports
    You can use the Virtual Storage Console (VSC) Reports menu to view pre-defined reports for all the datastores managed by a selected VSC instance in a particular vCenter Server. You can perform operations such as sorting and exporting reports.
  • Troubleshooting issues with the virtual appliance for VSC, VASA Provider, and SRA
    If you encounter unexpected behavior during the configuration or management of the virtual appliance for Virtual Storage Console (VSC), VASA Provider, and Storage Replication Adapter (SRA), then you can follow specific troubleshooting procedures to identify and resolve the cause of such issues.
  • Contacting Support
    You can contact Support to obtain help for your issue.
  • Notices
    Lenovo may not offer the products, services, or features discussed in this document in all countries. Consult your local Lenovo representative for information on the products and services currently available in your area.