Release Notes

Deployment
8 Dell EMC SC Series and VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes Best Practices | 3161-BP-SC
3 Deployment
The basic steps required to deploy Dell Storage Manager and Virtual Volumes are covered in the Dell Storage
Manager Administrator’s Guide and online help. Some of the steps will be highlighted here for the purposes of
providing more depth or differentiation in methods available to complete a step. It is assumed at this point that
a Dell EMC SC Series SAN, Dell Storage Manager, and VMware vSphere are online and available for Virtual
Volumes deployment.
3.1 Dell Storage Manager and VASA Provider credentials
vSphere hosts do not have visibility or management capability of Virtual Volumes as traditional devices such
as VMFS datastores or RDMs beyond the Storage Containers and Protocol Endpoints. The VASA Provider,
bundled in Dell Storage Manager, provides out-of-band management of Virtual Volumes on SC Series from
vCenter. Administrator or volume manager level credentials are required in DSM. A recommended best
practice is to create a dedicated, documented, and secure service account for this function keeping in mind
the implications if the account is subjected to a password rotation policy.
Create Dell Storage Manager credentials