EMC Plugins for VMware vCenter EMC World 2010
EMC Plugins
For VMware vCenter
The Goal for Extending VMware vCenter
EMC strives to provide the richest set of features and
functionality embedded within VMware vCenter management
console to extend the capabilities of the VM Administrator
Overview
With EMC’s second-generation vCenter plugin family (Virtual Storage Current Plugins
Integrator, CLARiiON plugin, and Celerra NFS Plugin), EMC gives
VMware administrators the ability to simplify visibility, provisioning, and
management of EMC storage through the VMware lens. CELERRA Provisioning, Full/Fast
Clones, Compress
From VMware vCenter, administrators can leverage array functions to Decompress, VSI
increase the efficiency in their VMware environment and hardware
CLARiiON Storage Provisioning,
accelerates VM deployment. The EMC plugins for VMware:
VMFS deployments,
• Provide storage visibility with ESX and VM mapping View deployments, VSI
• Provision storage within vCenter across all available protocols V-Max Storage Provisioning,
VMFS datastore
• Supports array based, VM consistent snapshots deployment, VSI
• Integrate with VMware View for provisioning and deploying BC/DR VMware Site Recovery
• Compress VMDK’s in real-time to maximize storage efficiency Manager Failback:
Celerra & RecoverPoint
• Are provided at no additional cost to EMC customers
DATA Configuration best
EMC’s vCenter plugins provide more VMware integration and unique CENTER practices, App
capabilities than any other storage vendor. Other EMC integration points INSIGHT dependency maps
with VMware include: VMware aware Navisphere, Unisphere,
Recoverpoint, Replication Manager; vStorage API for Array Integration
(VAAI) support on Unified and V-Max platforms; vStorage API for
Multipathing support in PowerPath/VE; vStorage API for Site Recovery
Manager support across all products; and vStorage API for Data Protection,
vSphere Changed Block Tracking and vCenter integration in EMC Avamar.
Plugins from EMC Celerra, CLARiiON and Symmetrix/V-Max allow
VM Administrators to quickly and easily provision storage and deploy
VMFS data stores and gain deeper insight into how the storage is used.
EMC Plugins for VMware vCenter May 2010
EMC Celerra
With the introduction of EMC Celerra NFS Plugin, the following functionality is available through the vSphere
client:
• Provision NFS datastores automatically including all underlying Celerra functions on ESX hosts
or automatically across vSphere clusters
• Extend and reconfigure NFS datastores and underlying Celerra Filesystems
• Quickly and efficiently create snapshots and clones of virtual machines and datastores
• Leverage the Celerra’s unique capability for production NFS datastore-level and VM-level real-
time compression and decompression
• The NFS plugin can mass replicate individual virtual machines
Download location on Powerlink:
Home > Support> Software Downloads & Licensing > Downloads A-B > Adapters for Third-Party Applications
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EMC Plugins for VMware vCenter May 2010
EMC CLARiiON
With the introduction of EMC CLARiiON Plugin, the following functionality is available through the
vSphere client:
• Provision VMFS datastores automatically including all underlying CLARiiON functions on ESX
hosts or automatically across vSphere clusters
• Extend and reconfigure VMFS and block storage
• Leverage Snapview for mass datastore-level replication of Virtual Machines
Download location on Powerlink:
Home > Support> Software Downloads & Licensing > Downloads A-B > Adapters for Third-Party Applications
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EMC Symmetrix/V-Max
With the introduction of EMC Symmetrix/V-Max Plugin, the following functionality is available through
the vSphere client:
• Create pools of virtually provisioned storage and provide those to VMware teams to use while
protecting other workloads from any impact and enabling VMware teams to self-provision the
storage allocated to them
• Allocate storage to specific VMware Infrastructure Objects or share it across the entire cluster
• Extend and reconfigure VMFS and block storage
• Leverage TimeFinder for mass datastore-level replication of Virtual Machines
Download location on Powerlink:
Home > Support> Software Downloads & Licensing > Downloads T-Z > Virtual Storage Integrator (VSI)
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EMC Plugins for VMware vCenter May 2010
EMC Virtual Storage Integrator
Formally known as the Storage Viewer, the EMC Virtual Storage Integrator (VSI) Plugin introduces the
following functionality within the vSphere client:
• Discover and identify EMC Celerra, CLARiiON and Symmetrix arrays
• Present granular details of the storage allocated to the Virtual Infrastructure from each array
Download location on Powerlink:
Home > Support> Software Downloads & Licensing > Downloads T-Z > Virtual Storage Integrator (VSI)
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EMC Plugins for VMware vCenter May 2010
Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery
VMware’s Site Recovery Manager is the standard for the disaster recovery planning and execution in a
VMware virtual infrastructure. With features such as non-disruptive testing, single-click execution of a
disaster failover, and the level of automation and control over the process Site Recovery Manger truly
enable recovery management in the virtual datacenter. EMC was the first storage vendor to offer an
integrated failback tool to manage the transition back to the primary site once the disaster was mitigated
in manner as simple as the failover process.
The replication technologies that support an automated failback plugin to vCenter include:
• EMC Celerra IP Replicator (for NFS and iSCSI)
• EMC RecoverPoint
Download location on Powerlink:
Celerra: Home > Support> Software Downloads & Licensing > Downloads A-B > Adapters for Third-Party Applications
RecoverPoint: Home > Support > Software Downloads & Licensing > Downloads P-R > RecoverPoint & RecoverPoint/SE
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EMC Plugins for VMware vCenter May 2010
EMC Data Center Insight
With Data Center Insight from EMC IONIX, customers can quickly and easily
• Automate the population of EMC and Third-party CMDBs with best-practices configuration items
(CI) and allow customizations to define customer-specific CIs
• Build a single, reconciled view of the truth about the IT environment
• Visualize application and service dependencies across the data center – including applications,
servers, networks, and storage (both physical and virtual)
• Leverage the solution as a critical component of a federated and modular CMS to achieve a single
and accurate view of the IT environment so those responsible for configuration management can
understand – across multiple domains – the resources underpinning business services
Download location on Powerlink:
Home > Support> Software Downloads & Licensing > Downloads A-B > Adapters for Third-Party Applications
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EMC Plugins for VMware vCenter May 2010
EMC Plugins for the
VMware Infrastructure
EMC Virtual Storage Integrator and EMC CLARiiON and
Celerra plugins simplify provisioning, increase visibility, drive
efficiency, and hardware accelerate VMware environments.
Stay up to date on information related to EMC initiatives with
VMware with the following online forums:
• www.emc.com/vmwarecommunity
• www.emc.com/go/vmware
• virtualgeek.typepad.com
• blog.scottlowe.org
• www.vmwaretips.com
• chucksblog.emc.com
Special Notes/Comments
Powerlink provides additional information such as videos, technical white papers, validation guides, and
additional information that are focused on these plugins and the larger VMware Affinity program at
EMC. In addition, please take special note of the following:
• Presently, the EMC Celerra NFS, CLARiiON, Symmetrix/V-Max and Virtual Storage Integrator
plugins and SRM Failback plugins are free downloads to EMC customers
• For additional questions or comments, contact any of the EMC vSpecialists or your Account Rep.
