EMC CLARiiON vCenter Plugin - Download location

Craig,

Here is the document if this helps !

Best Regards

Ashok

Sr. vSpecialist

Hi Ashok

Thanks for the link to the document, that however wasn't the issue.  The issue is that the CLARiiON vCenter Plug-in is not within the EMC PowerLink location listed in the document.

Home > Support > Software Downloads & Licensing > Downloads A-B > Adapters for Third-Party Applications

Within here there is only the Celerra plug-in for VMware V1.0.7

There isn't a CLARiiON version,  I'm not sure if the link is wrong in the PDF or the software just hasn't been placed up on PowerLink yet.

Regards

Craig

Thanks for taking the time to clear that up Ashok.

Regards

Craig

Hi Dave,

The EMC CLARiiON Plug-in for VMware will not require Solutions Enabler.  It will be a stand alone solution.

Best regards,

Bruce Wolfeld, Product Manager

Unified Storage Solutions

EMC Corporation

Ashok,

Thanks for the info about the vCenter Plugin. I originally read about this from Chad Sakac over at Virtual Geek and can't wait to play around with it.

I'm curious about the requirement that Solutions Enabler be installed for this plug-in to work. I know that was a requirement for the old Storage Viewer plug-in to work, so it that still the case? And if so, is Solutions Enabler provided for free with the plug-in, or would each customer be required to purchase a Solutions Enabler license?

Thanks!

Dave M.

HI Craig,

As Ashok mentions, the EMC CLARiiON Plug-in for VMware is in development and will be available late Q2/early Q3.  I will make sure to post a note here when it is released.

Best regards,

Bruce Wolfeld, Product Manager

Unified Storage Solutions

EMC Corporation

Thanks Bruce, I appreciate the fast response. My customers will be happy to hear this!

The current "Storage Viewer" plug-in apparently requires Solutions Enabler but I could never figure out if that meant a purchase or if a license key was provided free with the plugin. I guess I won't have to worry about that anymore! 

Dave

Hi Dave,

Plese allow me to supply some clarification on Storage Viewer.  Storage Viewer has been renamed to Virtual Storage Integrator (VSI) and the new version was GA on 4/14.  VSI includes the original SV functionality, enhanced to provide Celerra mappings from the vSphere client along with CLARiiON and Symmetrix.  VSI does require an instance of Solutions Enabler running somewhere in the Datacenter.  This SE instance does require a license, but anyone who gets an EMC storage array gets an SE license key, for "free".  So for vSphere device mappings you'll continue to need VSI.

The current and near term releases of the EMC plug-ins include provisioning engines specific to the storage arrays.  The upcoming CLARiiON plug-in, referenced above, the Celerra NFS plug-in, released in 2009, and now VSI which includes Symmetrix VMAX, go beyond "viewing" to include command and control, dedupe, compression, etc.

The next generation of EMC plug-ins will be consolidated under a single package, VSI, will include all existing functionality, and more, and as Bruce points out, will not necessarily be dependent on Solutions Enabler.  I hope this helps!

Thanks and Regards,

Don Pichette

EMC2 Product Management

Hi all,

i've installed VSI plugin for ESX 4.0/ 4.1 (clariion with last flare 30 update)

with 4.0 host i can provision storage correctly, with 4.1 i've got message "The selected host are not connected to selected array".

of course host is connected and registerd.

I've got full reachebility beetwen ESX, clariion vcenter and vsphere on my laptop.

any idea?

tnx

danilo 

Hi Danilo,

Please contact EMC Support and log a ticket against "EMC VSI for VMware vSphere: Unified Storage Managment" and tell the support person that you are using this w/ a Clariion.

While Support is handling the ticket, please collect the VSI logs and forward to nastoolsupport@emc.com. I will ensure the situation is handled.

Thanks for using EMC!!

Ken

Danilo,

One more thing to mention, check the link to the video HOWTO as well.  There is one step that you might have missed where you add the CX credentials to the USM portion of the VSI configuration.  So you enter the creds once for VSI storage viewer during configuration and then one more time under USM from the same plugin configuration screen.

https://community.emc.com/click.jspa?searchID=715220&objectType=102&objectID=9463

Danilo,

This can have to do with how the ESX servers were registered to the storage array.  I did a post about it below.  Our support is definitely the place for this though so we can get the feedback to the product group if it is a bug.

https://community.emc.com/click.jspa?searchID=715214&objectType=2&objectID=507255