Virtual Storage Integrator 3.0.0 for vSphere and EMC Storage
I have been trying desperately this week to keep up to date with the latest announcements coming out of EMC World 2010. Problem is they appear to be making them and blogging about them faster than I can read and assimilate them.
One blog post that did catch my attention was a post by EMC’s Chad Sakac. Chad constantly amazes me, he generates a massive amount of super high quality technical content for the EMC and VMware community. His blog post was entitled “EMC’s next generation vCenter Plugins” and details the latest and greatest offerings from EMC’s Free vCenter plugins.
The Virtual Storage Integrator (VSI) V3.0.0 is a renaming of the existing EMC Storage Viewer 2.1 plugin that has been available for a while. Why the rename? Well EMC are introducing tighter integration by enabling storage provisioning from within vCenter, it’s now surpassed being just a storage viewer. The storage provisioning integration works with the CLARiiON across all protocols (FC, ISCSI, FCOE) and it also works with NFS on the Celerra. It also adds greater degrees of simplicity and reduces risk by automating all the tasks involved in provisioning and presenting storage to your vSphere cluster.
Chad explains it in much more detail and much better than I ever could in the following video.
I personally feel that the benefits of EMC’s ownership and tight working relationship with vSphere are beginning to shine through. Such tight levels of integration are now being delivered and future development doesn’t look likely to slow down either. The quote from Chad below show’s how aggressively his team are working to constantly bring new features to the table and best of all, there completely free!
EMC Virtual Storage Integrator (or VSI) is the main EMC vCenter plug-in. Over time, more and more functions that currently require installing one or more additional plugins will fold into the EMC Virtual Storage Integrator. We’re beefing up the team behind it, and they have a very aggressive roadmap (wait till you see what’s next!!!)
Click the link below to find out more about what vCenter plugins are available, what they’re designed to do and where you can download them from in EMC Powerlink.
