EMC PLUG-INS FOR VMware vCENTER · With EMC’s second-generation VMware® vCenter™ Plug-in family (Virtual Storage Integrator, EMC ® CLARiiON vCenter Plug-in, and EMC Celerra®

With EMC’s second-generation VMware® vCenter™ Plug-in family (Virtual Storage Integrator, EMC® CLARiiON® vCenter Plug-in, and EMC Celerra® vCenter Plug-in), VMware administrators can now simplify visibility, provisioning, and management of EMC storage through the VMware lens.

With EMC Plug-ins for vCenter you get more VMware integration and unique capabilities than from any other storage vendor. Other EMC integration points with VMware include VMware-aware EMC Navisphere®, EMC Unisphere™, EMC RecoverPoint, and EMC Replication Manager; VMware vStorage™ API for Array Integration (VAAI) support on EMC unified and EMC Symmetrix® VMAX™ platforms; vStorage API for multi-pathing support in EMC PowerPath®/VE; vStorage API for Site Recovery Manager support across all products; and vStorage API for Data Protec-tion, VMware vSphere™ Changed Block Tracking, and vCenter integration in EMC Avamar®.

EMC VIRTUAL STORAGE INTEGRATORFormerly known as the Storage Viewer, the EMC Virtual Storage Integrator Plug-in introduces the following functionality within the vSphere client:

• Discover and identify Celerra, CLARiiON, and Symmetrix arrays • Present granular details of storage allocated to the virtual Infrastructure from each array• Provision Symmetrix-hosted LDEVs to be used as VMFS datastores

EMC PLUG-INS FOR VMware vCENTER

Extend the capabilities of the VM administrator with VMware vCenter management console’s rich set of features and functionalities

S O L U T I O N O V E R V I E W

THE BIG PICTUREFrom VMware vCenter, administrators can leverage array functions to increase the efficiency in their VMware environments and accelerate VM deployments. EMC plug-ins for VMware:

• Provide storage visibility with VMware ESX and VM™ mapping

• Provision storage within vCenter across all available protocols

• Support array-based, VM-consistent snapshots

• Integrate with VMware View™ for provisioning and deploying

• Compress/decompress VMDKs in real time to maximize storage efficiency

• Are provided at no additional cost to EMC customers

Download Plug-ins from EMC Powerlink® at: Home > Support > Software Downloads and Licensing > Downloads A–B > Adapters for Third-Party Applications

EMC SYMMETRIX VMAXWith the introduction of the EMC Symmetrix/VMAX Plug-in, the following functionality is available through the vSphere client:

• Create pools of virtually provisioned storage and provide them to VMware teams to use while protecting other workloads from any impact—and enable VMware teams to self-provision 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 EMC TimeFinder® for mass data store-level replication of virtual machines

EMC CLARiiONWith the introduction of EMC CLARiiON vCenter Plug-in, the following functionality is available through the vSphere client:

• Provision VMFS data stores automatically, including all underlying CLARiiON functions on ESX hosts or automatically across vSphere clusters

• Extend and reconfigure both VMFS data stores and back-end storage• Leverage EMC SnapView™ for mass data store-level replication of virtual machines

Plug-ins currently available

Available plug-ins from EMC Celerra, CLARiiON, and EMC Symmetrix/VMAX enable VMFS datastores and provide deeper insight into how the storage is used. Currently available plug-ins include:

Celerra: Provisioning, full/fast clones, compress/decompress, Virtual Storage Integrator (VSI)

CLARiiON: Storage provisioning, VMFS deployments, View deployments, VSI

VMAX: Storage Provisioning, VMFS data store deployment, VSI

Business continuity and disaster recovery: VMware Site Recovery Manager Failback: Celerra and RecoverPoint

Data Center Insight: Configuration best practices, application dependency maps

Download from EMC Powerlink at: Home > Support > Software Downloads and Licensing > Downloads A–B > Adapters for Third-Party Applications

Download from EMC Powerlink at: Home > Support > Software Downloads and Licensing > Downloads T–Z > Virtual Storage Integrator (VSI)

EMC CELERRAWith the introduction of EMC Celerra vCenter Plug-in, the following functionality is available through the vSphere client:

• Provision vCenter data stores automatically including all underlying Celerra functions on VMware ESX® hosts or automatically across vSphere clusters

• Extend and reconfigure vCenter data stores and underlying Celerra file systems• Quickly and efficiently create snapshots and clones of virtual machines (VMs) and data

stores• Leverage the Celerra system’s unique capability for production vCenter data store-level and

VM-level realtime compression and decompression• Mass replication of individual VMs


BUSINESS CONTINUITY AND DISASTER RECOVERYVMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) is the standard for disaster recovery planning and execution in a VMware virtual infrastructure. With features including non-disruptive testing, single-click disaster failover execution—and end-to-end automation and control over the disaster recovery process—Site Recovery Manager truly enables recovery management in the virtual data center. 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 a manner as simple as the failover process.

The replication technologies that support an automated failback plug-in to vCenter SRM include:

• Celerra IP Replicator (for vCenter and iSCSI)• RecoverPoint

For Celerra IP Replicator


For RecoverPoint

Home > Support > Software Downloads and Licensing > Downloads P–R > RecoverPoint

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TAKE THE NEXT STEPEMC Plug-ins for VMware vCenter extend the virtual infrastructure management suite with storage provisioning and management, disaster recovery failback, and data center visualization. Contact your EMC representa-tive for more about how you can increase visibility, drive efficiency, and accelerate VMware environments.

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EMC IONIX DATA CENTER INSIGHTWith Data Center Insight from the EMC Ionix™ family, you can quickly and easily:

• Automate the population of EMC and third-party CMDBs with best-practice configuration items (CI) and enable 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 (both physical and

virtual)—including applications, servers, networks, and storage• 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


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