External hosts can be registered in PowerStore Manager to enable access to storage resources. Internal hosts are the PowerStore X model ESXi nodes. Starting with PowerStoreOS 2.0, enhancements are added to display additional details and improve visibility for both internal and external ESXi hosts. These enhancements include:
- PowerStore X model ESXi node visibility in PowerStore Manager:
- The internal ESXi nodes are shown alongside the external hosts that are registered on the cluster.
- The Host Type column indicates whether the host is internal or external.
- These internal ESXi nodes are visible on the Hosts & Host Groups and the Storage Containers > ESXi Hosts pages.
- For internal and external ESXi hosts, the vSphere Host Name column displays the hostname that is displayed in the vSphere Web Client.
- The Host Name column enables administrators to easily identify the host, even if it is registered with different names in PowerStore Manager and vSphere.
- This column is on multiple pages within PowerStore Manager (Hosts & Host Groups, Virtual Machines, Virtual Volumes, and so on).
- For internal and external ESXi hosts, the ESXi version is also displayed in PowerStore Manager.
- PowerStore X model ESXi nodes in a PowerStore X cluster must all run the same ESXi version.
- The ESXi Version column is on the Hosts & Host Groups page.
The following figure shows the enhanced Hosts & Host Groups page.
Figure 5. Internal ESXi host visibility, vSphere Host Name, and ESXi version visibility