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Dell EMC Unity™ Family Configuring Hosts to Access VMware Datastores

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Manually configuring a Unity VMware VMFS datastore

About this task

NOTE If the VMware datastore is created in Unisphere, no additional action is required on the VMware side, the datastore will appear automatically. If a LUN is provisioned to the ESXi host, a datastore must be manually created on the VMware side.

Steps

  1. Log in to the vSphere client as an administrator
  2. Rescan for new storage devices:
    1. From Hosts and Clusters, select the server.
    2. Select the Configure tab.
    3. Under Storage, click Storage Adapters.
      1. Select the Fiber Channel adapter from the list of adapters.
      2. Select Rescan Storage....
  3. Add each VMFS datastore to the ESXi host:
    1. FromHosts and Clusters, select the host.
    2. From the Actions drop down list, select Storage > New Datastore....
      The New Datastore wizard appears.
    3. In the New Datastore wizard, do the following:
      1. Select VMFS as the datastore type.
      2. Specify a datastore name and a disk/LUN for provisioning the datastore.
      3. Specify the VMFS version for the datastore.
      4. Review the disk layout and specify the partition configuration details.
      5. Review the datastore information, and click Finish.

Results

The Unity VMFS datastores are configured for the ESXi host.

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