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Dell Unity systems feature tight integration with VMware vSphere to improve the ease of use, performance, and flexibility for VMware virtualized environments. Unisphere includes a dedicated access VMware page that allows for the end-to-end discovery of a VMware vSphere environment. Information about the VMware vCenters, ESXi hosts, virtual machines, and virtual disks is imported and displayed directly in Unisphere. The import process also registers the VMware hosts onto the Dell Unity system so they can be granted access to LUNs, VMFS datastores, NFS file systems or datastores, or vVol datastores.
To import this information (shown in Figure 1), do the following:
Starting with Dell Unity OE version 5.3, when performing a vCenter Add operation, an additional step has been added to verify the vCenter’s certificate. The Verify Certificate step will present the vCenter’s certificate for review and acceptance during the vCenter Add (shown in Figure 2). When it is accepted, the Unity system will establish an SSL authenticated session with the vCenter.
If a vCenter is entered, all of the ESXi hosts managed by that vCenter are discovered and are eligible for import. You can select all or just a subset of the discovered ESXi hosts to be imported. Any Fibre Channel or iSCSI initiators on these ESXi hosts are also imported for host registration purposes.
After it is imported, the following information is populated in each tab:
In the More Actions drop-down menu, a vCenter or ESXi host can be polled for any software or hardware changes. The More Actions menu also provides an option to Verify Certificate for any existing integrated vCenter. In addition, the Find ESXi Hosts option under the More Actions on the vCenters page can be used to import any ESXi hosts that were previously skipped, as shown in Figure 3.