In my previous two posts, I looked at setting up the core Dell VSM appliance, and in the second post how to enable the Dell VASA provider. Now the extension is setup from Dell I can show how it makes management from the vSphere Web Client possible. These included common tasks such as Creating and Assigning a Datastore a workflow that includes the ability to assign snapshot policy for the volume, Resizing a datastore (resizes both the volume and the VMFS partition within it), I wrap up this post with a general look at managing some of the settings around the ISCSI connections including modifying the IQN ACL and viewing which sessions have been established…

Creating and Assigning a Datastore

Once the Dell EqualLogic array has been registered with the vCenter, you can use it to create new datastores – this simultaneously build the iSCSI volume on the array, and assigns the correct IQN and access privileges.

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