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Virtual Storage Integrator (VSI) brings storage provisioning, management, and monitoring capabilities to the standard VMware vSphere Client interface. Viewing and performing common storage tasks can be accomplished directly from vSphere, without needing to launch PowerStore Manager. The VSI plug-in also provides visibility into the storage system, enabling administrators to see the underlying storage on which their VMs are running. When connecting external ESXi hosts to PowerStore, use VSI to scan the host and apply best practices for performance and availability. The following figure shows the datastore creation wizard in VSI: