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Unisphere for PowerMax offers VMware integration that provides access to the storage administrator to view vCenters, ESXi hosts, VMs, and the storage presented to those environments. In addition, beginning with version 10.1.0, the administrator can provision RDMs directly to VMs. This feature can be helpful. For example, when the VMware administrator configures Solutions Enabler and requires RDMs to the local array. Navigation within Unisphere is available from the home dashboard as a separate menu on the left side in Figure 77.
When a vCenter is added to Unisphere, Unisphere only adds ESXi hosts in that vCenter that have storage that is presented from the array. This feature can be useful if multiple clusters are in a single vCenter, each which sees different storage. The same holds true when individually adding an ESXi host.
Unisphere fails the addition if the host does not see the array storage and generate the error that is shown in Figure 78.
Figure 79 shows the process to register a vCenter host. Unisphere requires that the user either imports a root CA certificate in step 2 (recommended) or imports a self-signed or end-entity certificate in step 3. Once registered, Unisphere gathers all the information about the environment.
In Figure 80 the newly added vCenter is listed, along with the hosts of which it consists. Since all hosts in this vCenter have storage that is presented from the PowerMax array, four are added.
Drilling-down into an ESXi host there are four tabs: Details (general info about ESXi host), Masking Views (pathing details), Virtual Machines (all VMs and details), and Performance. These views are seen in Figure 81. The ability to drill further down into the environment is within each view.
Unisphere for PowerMax also supports VMware Virtual Volumes (vVols). An individual VM examination reveals the details behind the vVols as in Figure 82. The VVOL WWN field is only available before Unisphere 10.1.0.